I have been a huge fan of Mamoru Hosoda’s works for so many years now, and I can honestly credit him as one of the creators that helped to get me into the beautiful medium that is Anime in the first place. Starting with his masterpiece, wolf children. It’s been 10 years now since I first watched this spectacular movie that is so dear to my heart as my all-time favourite, both across live action and animation, and to think now, 10 years later, I might have the opportunity to watch it on the big screen here in Great Britain.
It’s amazing that so many of this director’s works are going to be available to view in so many cinemas across the UK to celebrate his career so far and the works that have brought us so much joy, pain and love across their realism for what has been shockingly so many years now. 20 years next year in fact, since The Girl Who Leapt Through Time first came out in Japanese cinemas. To quote the ever famous line from this first cinematic release, “time waits for no one.”
Now though, we have this impossibly rare (perhaps once in a lifetime) opportunity to leap back ourselves, experience these beautiful stories once again, and some for the first time on the big screen in a way we’ve never experienced them in the west before.
I hope to experience this leap as much as possible, and I hope others here in the UK will be able to as well.
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