The uneven Japanese animated fantasy “The Deer King” often resembles the sort of Studio Ghibli action-adventure that made animation figurehead Hayao Miyazaki internationally famous, especially “Princess Mononoke” and “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.” “The Deer King” not only looks like those Studio Ghibli staples, but also follows a plot that recalls Ghibli-style high fantasies: two warring feudal kingdoms try either to capture or enlist Van, a resourceful ex-soldier who may or may not be immune to a devastating plague.
Comparisons between “The Deer King” and Studio Ghibli’s better known movies seem inevitable, especially given how many of this movie’s creators learned their trade as animators and animation directors at Studio Ghibli, particularly co-directors Masashi Ando and Masayuki Miyaji, and key animators Kenichi Konishi and Kenichi Yoshida. Thankfully, what works in so many Ghibli movies also mostly works in “The Deer King,” given the craft and consideration...
Comparisons between “The Deer King” and Studio Ghibli’s better known movies seem inevitable, especially given how many of this movie’s creators learned their trade as animators and animation directors at Studio Ghibli, particularly co-directors Masashi Ando and Masayuki Miyaji, and key animators Kenichi Konishi and Kenichi Yoshida. Thankfully, what works in so many Ghibli movies also mostly works in “The Deer King,” given the craft and consideration...
- 7/14/2022
- by Simon Abrams
- The Wrap
The Deer King Trailer — Masashi Ando and Masayuki Miyaji‘s The Deer King / Shika no ou (2021) U.S. movie trailer has been released by GKids. The Deer King trailer stars Shinichi Tsutsumi, Ryoma Takeuchi, Anne Watanabe, Atsushi Abe, and Hisui Kimura. Crew Taku Kishimoto wrote the screenplay for The Deer King. Michael Archacki was [...]
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- 5/14/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
"The disease only lets the chosen ones live." GKids has debuted the main official US trailer for the Japanese anime film The Deer King (the final English title), originally known as 鹿の王 ユナと約束の旅 in Japanese. It premiered last year and opened in Japan in the fall, now arriving in US theaters starting in July - with a special two-day event and theatrical run. The Deer King is the directorial debut of the acclaimed animator Masashi Ando. Ando has previously worked as a character designer, animation director, and key animator with the famed Studio Ghibli, and also with directors Satoshi Kon and Makoto Shinkai. Masayuki Miyaji is best known for directing the 2009 series Xam'd: Lost Memories. The fantasy film, adapted from a novel, is about a battle of empires. Shinichi Tsutsumi voices the lonely warrior Van, who survives a deadly and mysterious disease; Ryoma Takeuchi voices the genius doctor ...
- 5/11/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Agent Takano (Tatsuya Fujiwara), a secret organization with a bomb embedded in his heart, and his partner Taoka (Ryoma Takeuchi). With the danger of death approaching every 24 hours, a life-threatening brain battle with agents in each country begins over the confidential information of “next-generation energy that will determine the future of all humankind.” In the extreme situation where difficulties struck one after another, the limit of the two heart blasts was approaching.
- 1/13/2021
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
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