Director Mamoru Hosoda continues on his roll with a brand of animated films that are extremely well received, because not only are they drawn to perfection in anime style, but also his films touches the emotional core on humanity, and this will inevitably move you with his style and delivery of such strong stories, whether written by someone else, as a film adaptation of novels such as The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, or like in Summer Wars and Wolf Children, stem from his own imagination. And don't forget that story remains king. There's a lack of charm with the very clinical approach to animated films, especially with loads of images created digitally, and now for the 3D format, and this charm is always ever present in the traditional art form for the big screen. If you'd ever need to know why 2D animation is still relevant, or why the slew of 3D animated films can't seem to dent and push the former out of fashion, then perhaps Wolf Children encapsulates all the reasons why this is so.

For example, Requiem for a Dream (2000) features a shot-for-shot remake of a scene in Perfect Blue. Perfect Blue is a true cult-classic and has influenced many other psychological thrillers, such as Inception (2010), in Hollywood. As the divide between her public and private life begins to blur, her sense of reality starts to slip past her fingers. Mima then finds herself a target of stalking by an obsessive fan.

Mima Kirigoe is a retired member of a Japanese pop-idol group, and has been pursuing a career in acting. Things take a strange turn when he solves a complex mathematical equation from a rogue email, and accidentally unleashes a virtual world’s artificial intelligence that’s bent on destroying the real world.

Kenji is a young math genius who’s asked by a schoolmate to act as a fake fiancé at her family reunion. That is, until she finds her voice again in a virtual environment called “U”, and gains huge popularity for her singing and song-writing abilities. Traumatised by the loss, the protagonist stops singing, something that was encouraged by her mother. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)Ī modern retelling of the classic fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast, Belle follows Suzu, a shy high school student who is coping with the death of her mother. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

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