To celebrate the November 21st release of " Scarlet, " the latest animated feature film from director Mamoru Hosoda, known for such works as "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" and " Summer Wars ," Friday Road Show (NTV, Fridays at 9pm) will be broadcasting Hosoda's films for four consecutive weeks starting from November 7th. In the second week, the full-length version of " The Boy and the Beast" (2015), Hosoda's first hit to gross over 5 billion yen at the box office, will be shown at 9pm on November 14th. Director Hosoda has commented ahead of the broadcast.
Director Hosoda said, "I believe there are many people who saw my previous works when they were released in theaters, or who discovered them on 'Friday Road Show.' I would be happy if the circle of people who will see my new work, ' Scarlet,' can expand now that my new film, 'Endless Scarlet,' is being released. ' The Boy and the Beast and the Beast' have something in common with ' Scarlet,' in that it is a story about a father and son, and also about characters living in two different worlds connecting with each other. It is precisely because the differences are so great that I think it will be deeply moving when they transcend that and lead to an understanding."
In the second half of the program, a special video from "Scarlet" will be shown, depicting the protagonist, Princess Scarlet, as a young child, training hard to seek revenge on the nemesis who killed her father.
"The Boy and the Beast" is set in Shibuya, Tokyo, and Shibutengai, an alternate world inhabited by monsters. The story revolves around the strange master-disciple relationship between a monster man and a lonely boy, and depicts his training and adventures in the alternate world, the bond between father and son, and his faint romance with the heroine. Aoi Miyazaki plays the boy Kyuta as a child, Shota Sometani plays him as a young man, and Koji Yakusho plays Kyuta's master, Kumatetsu. Voice actors including Suzu Hirose, Yo Oizumi, Lily Franky, and Masahiko Tsugawa also appear in the series.
