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.
The dystopian tropes about the net that run through so many movies, including Spielberg’s “Ready Player One,” are not doing anyone any favors, particularly women, Hosoda told AFP at the Cannes film festival, where his latest feature “Belle” is premiering.
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