Mirai

About Mirai

Four-year-old Kun struggles with jealousy after his newborn sister, Mirai, begins receiving most of his family’s attention. Retreating to the garden, he encounters Mirai as a teenager from the future and embarks on extraordinary journeys across his family’s past, gradually discovering new perspectives on love, belonging and what it means to become an older brother.

Mirai is a 2018 animation fantasy film directed by Mamoru Hosoda. It runs 98 minutes and was released in July 2018.

The film is filed under train, railway station, brother sister, and brother and sister.

Moka Kamishiraishi appears as Kun (voice), Haru Kuroki as Mirai (voice), Gen Hoshino as Father (voice), and Kumiko Aso as Mother (voice). The screenplay is by Mamoru Hosoda. Produced by D.N. Dream Partners.

Grave of the Fireflies, In This Corner of the World, and Inuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time make useful companions to Mirai, all filed under adult animation. TMDB voters put it at 7.2 out of 10 across 894 votes and it carries a PG rating.