exhibition report: The Creative Origins of Mamoru Hosoda

Last weekend, I went to the exhibition "The Creative Origins of Mamoru Hosoda" that's currently being held at Creative Museum Tokyo (until August 31st). The price was a bit high for my tastes at ¥2,500, but I was going with a friend and decided to not be too stingy. In the end, I'm glad that I did! The timing for the exhibition was chosen based on the 20th anniversary of the movie The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, which came out in 2006. The exhibit is a retrospective on Hosoda's work as a director, in roughly chronological order. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time / Tokikake (2006) Summer Wars (2009) Wolf Children (2012) Later movies (The Boy and the Beast, Mirai, Belle, Scarlet) The first three movies get the biggest floor space. For Tokikake, the entire storyboard is on display, alongside some drawings from animators and character designers, background art etc. Summer Wars and Wolf Children also have single rooms dedicated to them, but are a little bit less "content-dense" (instead…