Although Suzu can’t sing in real life, singing comes natural to her in U as an AS known as Belle.
Locarno will also be screening Hosoda’s previous original films, including Wolf Children and The Boy and the Beast, as part of its children programming at the festival.
The Hollywood Reporter reported today that Mamoru Hosoda’s latest anime film BELLE, which opened in Japan on July 16, has won the first-ever Locarno Kids Award, a prize “given to someone capable of bringing cinema to younger viewers.”