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Mirai, the director’s seventh film, is not inspired from Hosoda’s own experience, but through the experiences of his first-born son meeting his baby sibling for the first time. 2015’s The Boy and the Beast was completed just after the birth of Hosoda’s first child, the product of his own questions as to what role a father should play in the life of his son. 2012’s Wolf Children was inspired by the passing of Hosoda’s mother, animated in part by the anxieties and aspirations at the prospect of his own impending parenthood. Summer War, apart from a premise more or less recycled from Hosoda’s 2000 directorial debut Digimon Adventure: Our War Game!, was the many times removed story of Hosoda meeting his wife’s family for the first time. Most if not all of Mamoru Hosoda’s original films produced in the past decade function, to some degree or another, as exercises in autobiography. Stars: Moka Kamishiraishi, Haru Kuroki, Gen Hoshino, Kumiko Aso, Mitsuo Yoshihara, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Koji Yakusho, Masaharu Fukuyama Here are the 11 best Japanese films on Netflix: Fortunately, there are some great anime films that span genres from drama and action/adventure to fantasy and sci-fi. And while you used to be able to find things like a Takashi Miike samurai film, a Kinji Fukasaku dystopian thriller, or a documentary on legendary Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune, this is the first time our list of recommendations is exclusively anime films.
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Netflix lists 102 Japanese Movies available to stream, and most of those are from anime franchises like Naruto, InuYasha or Pokémon.