The Boy and the Beast

Synopsis

Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spirit guide. That encounter leads them to many adventures.

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Cast

Koji Yakusho

Kumatetsu (voice)

Aoi Miyazaki

Young Kyuta (voice)

Shota Sometani

Teenage Kyuta (voice)

Suzu Hirose

Kaede (voice)

Lily Franky

Hyakushūbō (voice)

Yo Oizumi

Tatara (voice)

Kazuhiro Yamaji

Iozen (voice)

Mamoru Miyano

Teenage Ichirohiko (voice)

Kappei Yamaguchi

Teenage Jiromaru (voice)

Haru Kuroki

Young Ichirohiko (voice)

Momoka Ohno

Young Jiromaru (voice)

Sumire Morohoshi

Chico (voice)

Keishi Nagatsuka

Kyuta's Father (voice)

Kumiko Aso

Kyuta's Mother (voice)

Masahiko Tsugawa

Lord (voice)

Crew

Art

• Takashi Omori Art Direction
• Yoichi Nishikawa Art Direction
• Yohei Takamatsu Art Direction
• Anri Jojo Art Designer
• Hisako Akagi Background Designer
• Katsushi Aoki Background Designer
• Yoshikazu Fukutome Background Designer
• Kazuyuki Hashimoto Background Designer
• Kosuke Hayashi Background Designer
• Akemi Higashi Background Designer
• Kaori Hino Background Designer
• Sayaka Hirahara Background Designer

Camera

• Ryo Horibe Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

• Daisuke Iga Costume Design

Crew

• Takashi Watanabe Thanks

Directing

• Mamoru Hosoda Director

Editing

• Shigeru Nishiyama Editor

Production

• Atsushi Chiba Producer
• Genki Kawamura Producer
• Seiji Okuda Producer
• Yuichiro Sato Producer
• Daisuke Kadoya Executive Producer
• Nozomu Takahashi Executive Producer
• Hitoshi Ito Associate Producer
• Yuzuru Satou Associate Producer
• Kiyotaka Waki Line Producer
• Leititia Gokura Production Assistant
• Minami Ichikawa Producer
• Shinichirou Inoue Producer

Sound

• Masakatsu Takagi Original Music Composer
• Kyoko Kitahara Music Producer
• Kazutoshi Sakurai Theme Song Performance
• Yoshio Obara Recording Supervision
• Yuji Akazawa Sound Effects
• Masaru Ohgawara Foley Artist
• Kenji Ashimoto Orchestrator
• Hideya Suzuki Theme Song Performance
• Keisuke Nakagawa Theme Song Performance
• Kenichi Tahara Theme Song Performance

Visual Effects

• Osamu Mikasa Color Designer
• Prashant Arora Visual Effects Technical Director
• Ryo Horibe CGI Director
• Hiroyuki Aoyama Key Animation
• Kenji Hachizaki Key Animation
• Takayuki Hamada Key Animation
• Hideki Hamasu Key Animation
• Ayako Hata Key Animation
• Shunsuke Hirota Key Animation
• Takeshi Honda Key Animation
• Akira Honma Key Animation
• Mamoru Hosoda Character Designer

Writing

• Mamoru Hosoda Original Story
• Mamoru Hosoda Screenplay

Photos