Hasoda, Japanese filmmaking master and a father of a young girl himself, wants to empower her generation to take control of their digital destinies rather than cower in fear
Japanese animation director Mamoru Hosoda arrives for the screening of the film "France" at the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on July 15, 2021
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Mamoru Hosoda has bones to pick with both Steven Spielberg and Hayao Miyazaki, the other great Japanese animator to whom he is often compared.
Hosoda—whose brilliantly humane "Mirai" got an Oscar nod three years ago—has had enough of the way Hollywood treats the digital world and Miyazaki depicts women.