Storyline
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island that's a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.
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Cast
Bryan Cranston, Anjelica Huston, Frank Wood, Courtney B. Vance, Harvey Keitel, Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Kunichi Nomura, Roman Coppola, Akira Takayama, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Liev Schreiber, Jeff Goldblum, F. Murray Abraham, Takayuki Yamada, Tilda Swinton, Fisher Stevens, Ken Watanabe, Bob Balaban, Yoko Ono, Greta Gerwig, Kara Hayward, Jake Ryan, Ryuhei Matsuda, Akira Ito, Edward Bursch, Yojiro Noda, Mari Natsuki, Koyu Rankin, Nijiro Murakami, Satoshi Yamazaki, Gen Ueda, Jun Takahashi, Luli Shioi, Erica Dorn, Chinami Narikawa, Chris Benz, Alex Orman, J. Wurster, Kozue Akimoto, Shota Matsuda, Kiyotaka Mizukoshi, Elaiza Ikeda, Ryuhei Nakadai, Shin Mononobe, Ikunosuke, Taichi Kodama, Karin Okoso
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Reviews
100
The unique charm of Isle of Dogs is its bottomless vault of curios, its sly humor, playful graphic inserts and dexterous narrative detours.
91
One does not necessarily have to be fond of canines in order to love Isle of Dogs, but it helps. It may also help to have a fondness for the meticulous craft of stop-motion animation itself or, even more interestingly perhaps, for Japanese cinema. It is a delightful, exquisitely-detailed production.
90
So lush with gorgeous detail it’s like a piece of highly-textured haute couture, there’s also a sharp social message behind the elaborate seams.
83
The staggeringly well-crafted Isle of Dogs is nothing if not Anderson’s most imaginative film to date.
83
As far as representation goes, the stunning, brimful, extraordinary Isle of Dogs can’t really be said to do anyone’s culture a disservice. Except cat lovers, who should probably mount a boycott.
