The director Mamoru Hosoda will seem at a Q&A following a screening of his new movie BELLE (Ryū to Sobakasu no Hime) on Friday November 26 at 7.45 p.m. on the Glasgow Movie Theatre. Tickets can be found on the above hyperlink.

It was beforehand introduced that BELLE might be screened within the UK and Eire in early 2022.

The movie had its world premiere on the Cannes movie pageant on July 16 and was launched in Japanese cinemas on the next day.

The BFI describes the story:

Excessive-school scholar Suzu finds on a regular basis social conventions troublesome to take care of and is more and more drawn into another, digital world by way of the U app – an Web-based surroundings with 5 billion members. Right here, she excels as singing megastar BELLE; her alter-ego even offering her with a confidence enhance in actuality. U permits individuals like Suzu, who battles to deal with the lack of her mom, to seek out some sanctuary from the ache and struggles of their actual lives. But, inside its environment of magnificence and surprise, an underlying hazard surfaces. BELLE/Suzu’s life turns into entwined with a disruptive presence often called the ‘Dragon’, as she recognises that behind this threatening façade somebody pained is crying out for assist.

Singer-songwriter Kaho Nakamura will play the protagonist Suzu/Belle. Nakamura additionally sings within the movie.

Hosoda (The Woman Who Leapt By means of Time, Summer time Wars,The Boy and The Beast, Mirai) directed and scripted the movie, and can be credited for the unique work. The movie marks Studio Chizu‘s tenth anniversary. Taisei Iwasaki (Blood Blockade Battlefront, Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan, The Bare Director) was the movie’s music director and composer.

Eric Wong, a London-based architect and designer, created the idea art work for the movie’s on-line world of U. In accordance with Chizu, “Hosoda personally discovered and commissioned Eric to provide you with this common and worldwide “web area” from each an architectural and design perspective.”

Jin Kim (Frozen, Tangled, Huge Hero 6, Moana) designed the titular protagonist Belle. In accordance with Chizu, “Mamoru Hosoda and Jin have lengthy revered one another’s work however met for the primary time when Mirai was nominated for an Oscar in Los Angeles. There, they promised to someday work on one thing creatively collectively and at last realized that objective with BELLE.”

Studio Chizu‘s beforehand introduced that the movie would painting an “ever-evolving on-line world” that takes place in a web-based world referred to as “U,” which has 5 billion registered customers. Studio Chizu talked about Hosoda’s previous movies the place digital phrases play a key function, corresponding to Digimon Journey: Kids’s Conflict Recreation and Summer time Wars, as related titles of exploring fashionable society, however based mostly on the director’s “latest insights.” The studio particularly talked about themes of “coming of age, household ties, love between dad and mom and kids, friendship that transcends species, the hyperlinks between our lives.”