![]() ![]() The false ending where Chiaki explains everything and then says he has to leave would probably have been a better ending as she would have truly learned her lesson, but it didn't make that much sense. It is an interesting take on the old "with great power comes great responsibility" as Makoto wastes the power on "fixing" minor problems resulting in bad things happening to other people when she could have easily just accepted the original outcome in terms of the accidents or been more honest when Chiaki confronts her especially the second time about being able to time leap as she had realised she was down to her last leap by then. I watched it in English, the last time I saw it was with the Japanese commentary, which wasn't very insightful. The film received a very small theatrical release and received little in the way of advertising in comparison to other anime films and ended up making ¥300m at the Japanese box office, but it did go on to win the inaugural Best Animation Award at the Japanese Academy Awards. The smell of lavender brings back a vague recollection of the boy for the girl who fell in love with him. Eventually the time traveller has to go home, but first he erases the memories of the other 2. She seems to use the power for much more serious stuff than Makoto, warning of a house burning down and a traffic accident. In the book she can travel through time because she inhales a drug made by one of the boys who is the time traveller and it smells like lavender. There's a shot later on where the camera zooms in on a photo of her with 2 boys, these are the other 2 characters from the book. I never realised this until reading the Wiki though, the Aunt does say she too used to travel through time, but gives such a spurious example I wrote it off as her making fun of Makoto a little when watching previously. This was the first Hosoda film not from a franchise, although it was a loose adaptation of the book by the same name, released in 1967, written by Yasutaka Tsutsui who also wrote Paprika, the anime of which, also produced by Madhouse, was released in the same year as TGWLTT! This was actually the 3rd feature length film based off the book the first 2 being live action straight adaptations (1983, 1997) and there would be a 4th (3rd live action) film in 2010 in which the daughter of the original character is the protagonist, played by the same actor, Riisa Naka, who voiced Makoto in the anime! The anime version was written by Satoko Okudera (who would go on to co-write Summer Wars and Wolf Children) and places the niece of the original character as the main protagonist. In this period he directed the OP for Samurai Champloo for Manglobe, again under the name Katsuyo Hashimoto, it was here he met the producer Yuichiro Saito.Ī bit of background here, but also contains what could be construed as small spoilers for the film. These creative differences meant that he left in the Summer of the following year.Īfter returning to Toei and working on more TV series he eventually made his feature length debut with the 6th One Piece movie Baron Omatsuri and the Secret of the Island in 2005. Unfortunately for Hosoda they wanted him to direct it as similar to Miyazaki as possible, whereas he wanted to make it his own way. The success of Digimon: The Movie brought him to the attention of Toshio Suzuki at Studio Ghibli who were wanting to find new blood to take the burden off Hayao Miyazaki and so Hosoda was brought in to direct Howl's Moving Castle in late 2001. Staff under the name Katsuyo Hashimoto.Īfter 8 years he was given his first overall directorial roles with short films for Digimon and Gegege no Kitaro. Instead he landed an animation job at Toei Animation in 1991 where he worked on 3x3 Eyes, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball Z among others and also worked on Revolutionary Girl Utena at J.C. After graduation he applied to Studio Ghibli, but was unsuccessful. Inspiration for becoming an animator came from The Castle of Cagliostro released in 1979 and after leaving school he went to the Kanazawa College of Art. ![]() Mamoru Hosoda was born on the 19th of September 1967 in Kamiichi, Toyama prefecture. This thread will be dedicated to the 6 non-franchise films. In the count down to the release of Belle in cinemas on the 4th of February ( official website) it's as good a time as any to watch his previous films.īelle is Hosoda's 7th feature length film as director and the 5th as writer/director. ![]()
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