Kubo and the Two Strings
2016movie
I found the theme of Kubo fascinating. To me, it’s about the redemptive power of stories to correct deficiencies in a person's real life, particularly the absence of a father, mother, or loved one. I find it ironic that Kubo spends the whole movie “searching” for his father and, later on, even his mother, too, only to learn he had them all along in spirit through their stories. Even the villain is redeemed by the power of story. What themes guided you as you directed Kubo and the Two Strings?
Kubo is way different from anything we've done before, particularly the last film. It was almost like it went completely the other direction from what we had just done, and every single artist at the studio was incredibly excited about challenging themselves to do this thing that they'd never tried before. You want the style with each film to evolve naturally out of the narrative, and that's why aesthetically, each of our films has a different production design. With this film here, it was very much inspired by these incredible classic forms of Japanese art.
