The Boy and the Beast
This story presents a wide range of powerful events that we live through in Kota, where he is raised by a man named Komatsu. Things may change completely and turn into an undesirable turn when deep darkness threatens to throw the human and savage worlds into chaos. This disorder makes this strong bond between this unlikely family subject to the unexpected final test.
8 May 1971, Chicago, Illinois, USA
10 May 1972, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 September 1949, Renton, Washington, USA
January 2, 1940 in Kyoto, Japan
3 September 1992, Japan
17 March 1983, Lubbock County, Texas, USA
26 June 1986, Sugar Land, Texas, USA
2 January 1940, Kyoto, Japan
18 October 1964, Houston, Texas, USA
24 December 1929, Aichi, Japan
30 May 1988, Minnesota, USA
5 October 1975, Houston, Texas, USA
4 June 1954, Mie, Japan
July 10, 2016
None of this is at all groundbreaking or unimaginably sophisticated, but it works so very well to make for an involving, admirable family film.June 16, 2016
... Hosoda flirts with the uncompromising challenges of the real world, allowing airs of self-doubt and oversight to affect the story.June 13, 2016
An emotional coming of age story. [Full review in Spanish]September 13, 2016
A film that doesn't try to redefine fantasy anime, instead it exploits the classic anime characters argue and fight all the time. [Full review in Spanish]March 04, 2016
A brilliant, funny morality tale that examines the transformative effects of martial-arts training.December 31, 2016
Animated wonders abound in The Boy and the Beast, a beautifully drawn fantasy tale by Japanese anime filmmaker Mamoru Hosoda.March 03, 2016
The characterizations and conflicts here are strictly generic.March 10, 2016
Questions may linger about what's real and what's projected from Ren's turbulent feelings, but the film creates such vivid worlds on both sides of the alley, you'll root for their coexistence.July 11, 2016
The Boy and the Beast is surprisingly funny, incredibly poignant and boasts some great lessons: Everybody's got darkness to control, and family is what you make, not what you're born into.March 04, 2016
What sets this film apart from its generic predecessors is writer/director Hosoda's knack for playful set pieces, and unsentimental love of surrogate familial communities.March 03, 2016
A mish-mash that seems original.May 27, 2016
The soundscape is rich, and the beast-battles well executed. But the characters never develop beyond their two-word descriptors: Conflicted Boy, Lonely Girl, Angry Son, etc.