Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Mamoru Hosoda has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Boy and the Beast.
2019
Animation · Family
The Boy and the Beast
2015 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 1%Max · Included
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
2006 · Movie · Director
Top 2%Max · Included
Wolf Children
2012 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 4%Max · Included
Belle
2021 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 23%Max · Included
Summer Wars
2009 · Movie · Director
Top 32%Max · Included
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.
Dir. Mamoru Hosoda · With Koji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Shota Sometani
When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to 'leap' backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and eventually, will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of herself and her friends.
Dir. Mamoru Hosoda · With Riisa Naka, Takuya Ishida, Mitsutaka Itakura
After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their inheritance of their father's traits prove to be a challenge for her.
Dir. Mamoru Hosoda · With Aoi Miyazaki, Takao Osawa, Haru Kuroki
The Straw Hats visit a recreational island, run by Baron Omatsuri, who asks them to complete a series of ordeals if they wish to stay on the island. Luffy accepts and the Straw Hats work together to complete them, but as the island's mysteries unfold, their lives and friendships are put to the test. It's up to Luffy to stop the Baron's plot and keep his crew together.
Dir. Mamoru Hosoda · With Mayumi Tanaka, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura
Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day discovers the massive online world "U" and dives into this alternate reality as her avatar, Belle. Before long, all of U's eyes are fixed on Belle, when, suddenly, a mysterious, dragon-like figure appears before her.
Dir. Mamoru Hosoda · With Kaho Nakamura, Ryo Narita, Shota Sometani
Teenage math whiz Kenji Koiso agrees to take a summer job at the Nagano hometown of his crush, Natsuki. When he arrives, he finds that her family have reunited to celebrate the 90th birthday of their matriarch. His job: pretend to be Natsuki's fiancé. Meanwhile, his attempt to solve a mathematical equation causes a parallel world's collision with Earth.
Dir. Mamoru Hosoda · With Ryunosuke Kamiki, Hitomi Miyauchi, Mitsuki Tanimura
When a powerful new Internet Digimon hatches and begins to consume data at an alarming rate, the Digidestined - kids chosen to save the digital world - must put an end to the destruction before the damage becomes irreversible and worldwide communication halts forever. As computer-based missiles are launched, and a wayward Digimon kidnaps the Digidestined, only the combined efforts of a worldwide network of kids and a new group of "Digidestined" can rescue the others and stop global disaster.
Dir. Mamoru Hosoda, Shigeyasu Yamauchi · With Lara Jill Miller, Joshua Seth, Bob Papenbrook
Unhappy after his new baby sister displaces him, four-year-old Kun begins meeting people and pets from his family's history in their unique house in order to help him become the big brother he was meant to be.
Dir. Mamoru Hosoda · With Moka Kamishiraishi, Haru Kuroki, Gen Hoshino
