Review: The playfully imaginative anime 'Mirai' tells a family story that's not just for kids
by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Dec 03, 2018
3 minutes
Master Japanese animator Mamoru Hosoda makes family films, but not in the way you think.
It's not that his films are suitable for all ages, though they mostly are. And it's not even that the family unit is central to his work, though it is.
Rather, it's that Hosoda's films stretch the boundaries of both style and content within the family film rubric. Disney movies these most definitely are not.
Hosoda's compelling "Wolf
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