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Yakusho takes on 3rd role in Hosoda's films after The Boy and the Beast, Mirai

Belle ( Ryū to Sobakasu no Hime, literally "The Dragon and the Freckled Princess") anime film revealed five cast members for the choir, a group that watches over the protagonist Suzu like a mother. The newly announced cast includes (pictured above from left to right): Sachio Nakao as Hatanaka, a university lecturer Fuyumi Sakamoto as Okumoto, as self-made farmer. Ryoko Moriyama as Yoshitani, a fisher and leader of the choir Michiko Shimizu, who runs a liquor store The five choir members will perform the "Alle psallite cum luya" song. This will be Sakamoto's first voice acting role. The film ...

Mamoru Miyano as Muitaro Hitokawa and Tokoraemaru What’s extra fascinating with this film is that it looks like the character designs came from Jin Kim, who worked on numerous Disney productions with Frozen to  Moana, and that there’s some great mutual respect between Hosoda and Kim and have wanted to work together for some time. This became possible after  Mirai. In addition to that, the project also collaborated with Cartoon Saloon out of Ireland and a London-based architect named Eric Wong to design the internet space for the film settings. Plot Concept: Our protagonist, Suzu, is a...

The film will open in Japan on July 16. Advance MoviTicke Card passes go on sale online on Friday. Chizu describes the story: Our protagonist, Suzu, is a 17-year old high school girl, who lives in the countryside of Kochi Prefecture with her father, after losing her mother at a young age. She loves singing with her mother more than anything else, but as a result of her mother's death was no longer able to sing. It wasn't long before she and her father grew more and more distant from each other, and Suzu closed her heart to the rest of the world.