'The Deer King' review: Anime epic unites body and soul
A former soldier and a young girl fight a plague destroying two kingdoms in the ravishing Japanese anime 'The Deer King.'
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A former soldier and a young girl fight a plague destroying two kingdoms in the ravishing Japanese anime 'The Deer King.'
Masashi Andō did not mean to make a movie about the COVID pandemic when he started work on The Deer King. The story, after all, is taken from a fantasy novel series by Nahoko Uehashi that was published back in 2014, and the film was announced in 2018. However, as this animated film premieres in AMC theaters in
A series of Japanese fantasy novels is the basis for this tenderly wrought and brilliantly animated adventure movie.
'The Deer King' features a veteran crew of animators from across the anime industry.
Despite an impressive roster of talent working on the film, “The Deer King” shares too many similarities with Masashi Ando’s previous work and comes up short in comparison.