![]() ![]() The latter’s cityscapes in films like Stray Dog and High and Low have inspired Megasaki City, while Kurosawa’s longtime collaborator, Toshiro Mifune, provides a direct inspiration for Mayor Kobayashi’s face.īut Anderson is more than capable of creating his own extraordinary universe. Isle of Dogs emerges as a profoundly Andersonian tribute to his love of Japanese cinema, particularly to Hayao Miyazaki, co-founder of animation house Studio Ghibli, as well as the late, legendary Akira Kurosawa. Tilda Swinton may have the greatest cameo of her career playing a seer pug called Oracle, who can see into the future because she understands the TV weather forecast. Koyu Rankin voices Atari, and celebrated his 11th birthday at the world premiere of the film on the opening night of the Berlin Film Festival. Bryan Cranston’s gruff tones are perfect for emotionally wounded stray underdog Chief (“I bite!”) while Scarlett Johannsson is the ever frou-frou show dog Nutmeg, with lines so predictable it should spark a demand for three dimensional roles for women playing animated animals too. Wes Anderson likes his pack too, and many of them are back, in voice form, for Isle of Dogs – Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand and Greta Gerwig – while Jason Schwartzmann is one of a handful of co-writers who also include The Grand Budapest Hotel’s Kunichi Nomura, and who lends his voice to dastardly Mayor Kobayashi. Five stars for Daniel Day-Lewis’s final film Black Panther: The most radical blockbuster ever? A pack of five starving, abandoned dogs clinging to the names of their former lives – King, Boss, Duke, Rex and Chief – join in with the search. Six months later, the 12-year-old orphan-ward of the mayor, Atari, flies and crashes a plane on the island as he tries to find his beloved pet, Spots. Canine saturation has reached epidemic proportions, dog flu is terrifying the humans of Megasaki, and its Mayor orders the round up and imprisonment of all dogs on nearby Trash Island – the Isle of Dogs. ![]() Anderson’s second stop-motion animation is set in Japan in the near future. ![]()
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