Though anime director Mamoru Hosoda rarely diverges from his pet theme of family, the scale of his movies rises and falls like the tide. ¡°The Girl Who Leapt Through Time¡± (2006) was an intimate tale of high school life, ¡°Summer Wars¡± (2009) dealt with the fate of the entire planet, ¡°Wolf Children¡± (2012) centered around a family living in the Japanese countryside, and ¡°The Boy and the Beast¡± (2015) featured an epic battle on the streets of Shibuya.
¡°Mirai¡± keeps the pattern up by going small. But while ¡°Mirai¡± may be Hosoda¡¯s most compact film yet, it¡¯s also, in some ways, his most daring.
It centers around Kun (Moka Kamishiraishi), a 4-year-old boy who lives with his mother and father in the suburbs. Kun has been doted on by his parents and grandparents since childhood, but his blissful only-child existence is upended with the arrival of baby sister Mirai. Kun, devastated by his being displaced as the center of his parents¡¯ universe, lashes out by throwing tantrums and threatening to run away from home.
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