In feudal Japan, young 12 year old eyepatched Kubo tends to his ill mother Sariatu in a mountain cave near a village. He earns their meager living by magically manipulating origami with music from his shamisen for the village folk and his mother, telling the tale of a samurai warrior named Hanzo, Kubo's missing father. Kubo is never able to finish his story as he doesn't know what happened to his father and his mother can't recall the end of the story due to her deteriorating mental state. Sariatu warns him not to stay out after dark as her Sisters (his aunts), Karasu and Washi, and his grandfather, the Moon King (who took his eye when he was a baby) will be able to find him and take his remaining eye. Read more on Wikipedia.
MPAA Rating: | PG |
Genre: | Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy |
Country: | United States |
Produced By: | Arianne Sutner, Travis Knight |
Directed By: | Travis Knight |
Written By: | Chris Butler, Marc Haimes, Shannon Tindle |
Cast: | Ralph Fiennes, Matthew McConaughey, Luke Donaldson, Art Parkinson, Alpha Takahashi, Meyrick Murphy, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Rachel Morihiro, Thomas Isao Morinaka, Minae Noji, George Takei, Ken Takemoto, Mariel Sheets, Rooney Mara, Brenda Vaccaro, Saemi Nakamura, Michael Sun Lee, Charlize Theron, Cary Y. Mizobe, Aaron Aoki, Laura Miro, Zachary Alexander Rice |
In Theaters: | Aug 19, 2016 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 41 minutes |
Production: | Focus Features, Laika Entertainment |
Box Office: | $48,023,088 |
Available On: | Netflix, Vudu |