Mamoru Hosoda & Satoko Okudera next great work?

The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki (2012)

"Hana is a 19 year old student who falls in a "fairy-tale like" love with a 'wolf man', over the course of the 13 year story Hana gives birth to two children - older sister Yuki, and younger brother Ame or 'Snow and Rain'. At first the family quietly lives in city trying to hide their wolf heritage, but when the 'wolf man' suddenly dies Hana makes the decision to move to a rural town, far from their previous city life."

-Via AnimeNewsNetwork 

As Mentioned In my previous post made by the same award winning director-writer duo who -to my surprise- have practically received the same core distinctions with both The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and it's successor Summer Wars which being 'Animation of the year' at the Japanese academy prize, Mainichi Film Awards and the Tokya Anime Award at the Tokyo Intenational Anime fair. I would like to specify that The Japanese Academy Award is one of the greatest national distinctions for both movies and animation films alike.

The same man who directed such works as Digiman Adventure and who was in charge of key animation for Dragon Ball Z before that and who became a great acknowledged director after joining Madhouse Studios which resulted in the first of the two - soon to be 3 - movies with the aid Satoko Okudera's , a respected screenplay writer for both live-action and animated films. The notion of the Mainichi Film Concours and the Japanese Academy Awards aren't strange to her after winning in the category of 'Best Screenplay' with"Ohikkoshi (moving)" in 1993  and "Gakkō no Kaidan"  in 1995 (Mainichi Film Concours and Japanese Academy Awards respectively) and her more recent film "Kaidan" was well received at the 29th Yokohama Film Festival and received a festival price for -yes,you might've guessed it- 'Best Screenplay'.
The result of a familiar collaboration of capable directors and writors is always astonishing as two minds are always better then one. Just like the ingenious  Takeshi Obata & Tsugumi Ohba well known for the widely acclaimed psychologic manga Death Note.




Expectation
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Although I am absolutely sure that this will make a great movie for a younger demography, I still can't shake the feeling that it won't triumph it's predecessor in terms of dept and credibility. I will still watch it tough. Even though the wolf-children and the romantic concept isn't that appealing to me...

The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki ( Ōkami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki)  will be released on the 21th of July this year in Japan. 

*Did you know?

1. that Mamoru Hosoda was commissioned by Ghibli Studio in 2004 (prior to his career at Madhouse) to direct the award winning film "Howl's Moving Castle" ? Which he accepted but left during early stages of production forcing Hayao Miyazaki out of his retirement.
2. that Mamoru Hosoda Established 'Studio Chizu', a small anime studio that will co-produce along Madhouse Studios for this film?

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