No Strings: Book Two of the Festival Series

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Kubo, Monkey, and Beetle find the "Sword Unbreakable" in the Hall of Bones, a cave guarded by a giant skeleton , but they defeat it and escape with the sword. They cross the Long Lake in a leaf boat to locate the "Breastplate Impenetrable" deep underwater. Kubo and Beetle swim down to retrieve it and encounter a sea monster, the "Garden of Eyes", who can entrance its victims with its many eyes by showing secrets and eating them. Kubo is caught in the creature's sight, but while entranced, comes to realize that Monkey is the reincarnated spirit of his mother.

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Beetle rescues the unconscious Kubo and obtains the Breastplate, but on returning to the boat, they find that Monkey has been badly wounded fighting and killing Karasu as shown when her broken mask is floating in the ocean. They go to shore to recover, where Monkey explains that she and her sisters were ordered by the Moon King to kill Hanzo, but she instead fell in love with him, and the Moon King branded her an enemy.

That night, Kubo dreams of meeting Raiden, a blind elderly man, who points him towards the "Helmet Invulnerable" in Hanzo's abandoned fortress. They travel there the next day but realize too late it is a trap set by the Moon King and Washi. Washi reveals that Beetle is Hanzo, whom she and Karasu cursed for taking Sariatu away from them. Beetle is killed, and Monkey sacrifices herself, buying Kubo the time to use his shamisen to defeat Washi, breaking two of the three strings on it.

Little Hanzo provides insight that the Helmet is actually the bell at the village, and Kubo breaks the last string to quickly travel there. At the village, Kubo meets Raiden, who is revealed as the Moon King. He offers to take Kubo's other eye to make him immortal, but Kubo refuses.

Raiden transforms into a giant Dunkleosteus -like dragon, the Moon Beast, and pursues Kubo and the remaining villagers into its cemetery. When Hanzo's armor proves ineffective, Kubo removes it and restrings his shamisen using his mother's hair, his father's bowstring, and his own lock of hair.

With the instrument, he summons the spirits of the villagers' loved ones, who show the Moon Beast that memories are the strongest magic of all and can never be destroyed. Kubo and the spirits' magic protect themselves and the villagers from the Moon Beast, stripping him of his powers and leaving him a mortal human being without any memories.

Spurred on by Kubo's stories, the villagers take compassion and tell Raiden he was a man of many positive traits, accepting him into the village. Kubo is able to speak to his parents' spirits during the subsequent Bon ceremony, as they watch the deceased villagers' lanterns transform into golden herons and fly to the spirit world into the sky.

Although the studio had never ventured into the genre before, Knight was enthusiastic about the project; owing partly his affinity towards both the "epic fantasy" genre as well as Japanese culture in general. The art took inspiration from such Japanese mediums as ink wash painting and origami among others. A particular influence came from the ukiyo-e wood block style, with Laika intending to make the entire film "to look and feel as if it's a moving woodblock print" [5] Assistance came from 3D printing firm Stratasys who allowed Laika to use their newest technologies in exchange for feedback on them.

For the Skeleton monster the team created a giant foot 4.

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For movement Laika had to design a robot to easily manipulate it. The team at one point purchased an industrial robot off of eBay but found that it would not work with their setup. Dario Marianelli composed and conducted the score for the film. The film screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 13, , [8] and was theatrically released in the United States on August 19, The website's critical consensus reads, " Kubo and the Two Strings matches its incredible animation with an absorbing—and bravely melancholy—story that has something to offer audiences of all ages.

Christy Lemire of RogerEbert. Club , praised the film, saying that "no American animation studio is better-suited to dreamlike plotting than Laika, and the animation of Kubo is truly dazzling, mixing sophistication and handmade charm with inspired flow.

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Jonathan Pile of Empire , wrote of the film: While the film received critical acclaim for its craft and story, it was criticized for its perceived whitewashing as a movie set in ancient Japan but featuring a centrally white cast. George Takei and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa were the only actors of Asian descent playing the role of minor characters. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kubo and the Two Strings Theatrical release poster. Arianne Sutner Travis Knight. Marc Haimes Chris Butler. Shannon Tindle Marc Haimes.

List of accolades received by Kubo and the Two Strings. British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved August 19, Retrieved December 22, What's more, you'll be the first to hear about offers and competitions exclusive to City of Stories. We respect your privacy, and will only ever use your information to send you the newsletter. We will never share your data with third parties, we won't hold any information on you that we don't need, and won't spam you with things you don't really care about. In , Swedish Psychologist Gunnar Johansson attached white markers to a black-costumed actor's body, then filmed the actor walking against a black background.

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He discovered that simply from the movement of these markers, a viewer could not only identify a human walking, but also the age, mood and gender of that person. From this phenomenon, Stephen Mottram conjures up characters out of the darknes for his show 'Parachute' , using only white tipped wands and some deft choreography. When I first heard about this, I couldn't quite grasp how it would work, but having seen THIS preview, I am amazed by how flawless - and moving - this performance looks. These white marks have a unique character, and tell a funny and mesmerising story of life, love and confronting old age.

Parachute will be followed by 'Watch the Ball': The workshops below are open to everyone, and suitable for beginners if you have no previous experience of working with, or creating puppets.

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Flabbergast Theatre of Boris and Sergey fame are running this fantastic Bunraku Workshop, exploring this unique, very physical style of puppetry and how it has been used in other large scale theatre productions - War Horse, for example. It will touch on the three main principles of Fixed Point, Focus and Breath. Join experienced course leader John Roberts to make your own fully working string puppet.