Kyuta slips into an alternate universe where he is raised by a bear-man, Kumatetsu. But when a deep darkness threatens to throw the human and beast worlds into chaos, the strong bond between this unlikely family will be put to ultimate test...
18 October 1964, Houston, Texas, USA
17 March 1983, Lubbock County, Texas, USA
14 March 1990, Osaka, Japan
2 November 1985, Clifton, Texas, USA
February 22, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan
27 April 1992, Riverside, California, USA
January 2, 1940 in Kyoto, Japan
24 May 1955
28 April 1974, Grand Prairie, Texas, USA
5 October 1975, Houston, Texas, USA
23 May 1965, Fukuoka, Japan
14 July 1970, Texas City, Texas, USA
December 31, 2016
Animated wonders abound in The Boy and the Beast, a beautifully drawn fantasy tale by Japanese anime filmmaker Mamoru Hosoda.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 04, 2016
A brilliant, funny morality tale that examines the transformative effects of martial-arts training.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.March 03, 2016
The characterizations and conflicts here are strictly generic.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.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.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]June 13, 2016
An emotional coming of age story. [Full review in Spanish]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.March 03, 2016
A mish-mash that seems original.