Four-year-old Kun lives with his parents and his dog Yukko, and he isn’t prepared for the arrival of his new baby sister Mirai. She quickly takes up all his parents’ attention, driving Kun to ...

After such expansive fantasies as “Wolf Children” and “Summer Wars,” Japanese animation master Mamoru Hosoda delivers a story of such intimate, unpretentious simplicity, you’d hardly ...

In Kun’s backyard, his safe harbor, magic takes the form of chronology-defying adventures that allow the boy to interact with his dog in human form and, more importantly, with teenage Mirai.

A young boy named Kun, wracked with jealousy over his baby sister’s arrival, learns to appreciate his family via a magical time-traveling garden in “Mirai,” the latest animated release from ...

Mamoru Hosoda’s Oscar-nominated animated feature, “Mirai,” tells the tale of Kun, a young boy who doesn’t deal with the arrival of his new baby sister very well.

Anime master Mamoru Hosoda invents an enchanted way for an only child to come around to the idea of sharing his home with a baby sister.

Mirai follows the 4-year-old Kun, who suddenly realizes he’s not the center of his parent’s attention anymore when they bring home his baby sister, Mirai.Overcome with complicated new emotions ...

Four-year-old Kun is an only child — this is, until his parents bring home a baby sister named Mirai (the Japanese word for future) and the boy gets rattled by the new addition to the household.

Fantasy is Japanese filmmaker Mamoru Hosoda’s preferred language for exploring family dynamics — and more acutely, parenting — within ever-surprising, imaginative, and richly stylized ...