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Kubo and the Two Strings ()

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A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical suit of armour worn by his late father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past.
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Kubo (voice)
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Mother (voice)
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Kameyo (voice)
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Hashi (voice)
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Mari (voice)
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Hosato (voice)
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The Sisters (voice)
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Moon King (voice)
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Beetle (voice)
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Minae (voice)
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Aiko (voice)
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Miho (voice)
Ken Takemoto ...
Ken (voice)
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Villager (voice)
Luke Donaldson ...
Villager (voice)
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Villager (voice)
Cary Y. Mizobe ...
Villager (voice) (as Cary Yoshio Mizobe)
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Villager (voice) (as Zach Rice)
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Directed by

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Travis Knight ... (directed by)

Written by

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Marc Haimes ... (screenplay by) and
Chris Butler ... (screenplay by)
 
Shannon Tindle ... (story by) and
Marc Haimes ... (story by)

Produced by

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Travis Knight ... producer
Jocelyn Pascall ... associate producer
Arianne Sutner ... producer

Music by

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Dario Marianelli ... (music by)

Cinematography by

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Frank Passingham ... director of photography

Film Editing by

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Christopher Murrie-Green ... (edited by) (as Christopher Murrie)

Editorial Department

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Valance Eisleben ... digital intermediate color assist/conform
Nancy Fuller ... digital intermediate producer
Mandy Hutchings ... assistant editor
Ladd Lanford ... post-production project manager
Kj Pilar ... Recording/Script Coordinator
Anthony Pitone ... first assistant editor
Mike Sowa ... digital intermediate colorist

Casting By

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Allison Jones

Production Design by

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Daniel R. Casey ... (pre-production)
Nelson Lowry

Art Direction by

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Alice Bird

Costume Design by

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Deborah Cook ... costume designer

Production Management

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Jared Bumgarner ... production scheduler
David E. Hall ... post-production supervisor
Dan Pascall ... production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Jodi Clark ... second assistant director (as Jodi Rosenlof)
Alicia Cortes ... second assistant director
Finley Mulligan ... third assistant director
Brett Alexander Nichols ... third assistant director
Holly Werner ... second assistant director
Samuel Wilson ... first assistant director

Art Department

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Jesse Aclin ... character design
Cristina Acuña ... scenic painter
Benjamin William Adams ... sculptor
Enrico Altmann ... mold maker
Casey Zander Anderson ... art department coordinator
Christina Jean Benenati ... puppet fabrication intern
Andy Berry ... set dresser
Matthew Brooks ... landscapes
Phil Brotherton ... assistant art director
Matt Burlingame ... landscapes artist
Heather Castro ... jr landscape artist
Tony P. Chen ... cg modeler
Trevor Dalmer ... art director: end credit sequence / designer and illustrator
Michelle L. DeMello ... scenic artist
Robert DeSue ... assistant art director
K.C. Englander ... jr. set dresser / landscape artist
Alyssa Brooksong Essman ... assistant puppet wrangler
Monica Fedrick ... title graphics
Toby Froud ... sculptor: Sculptor
Mark Garcia ... storyboard artist
Duncan Gillis ... art department head
Jesse Gregg ... lead set dresser
August Hall ... Concept Designer
Carl b Hamilton ... set designer
Georgina Hayns ... supervisor: puppet fabrication
Meg Holland ... scenic artist
Josh Holtsclaw ... graphic designer
Matt Isakson ... head of mold making
Leigh-Alexandra Jacob ... Scenic Artist
Susanna Jerger ... puppet fabricator
Joseph Kincher ... landscapes artist
Joe Kortum ... prop designer
Phil LaFond ... lead carpenter
Ann Larson ... puppet fabricator
Celeste Leipham ... landscapes artist
Samantha Levy ... landscape artist
Paul Mack ... model maker
Ean McNamara ... concept artist
Keith McQueen ... head of model shop
Douglas Mitchell ... Lead Landscape Artist sculptor
Kristin Musser ... art department
Ovi Nedelcu ... storyboard artist
Rachel Olson ... Landscape Artist
Desiree Ong ... production assistant
Christina Owen ... scenic painter
Michael Possert Jr. ... model maker
Gillian Povey ... Hand Fabricator
Tony Preciado ... landscapes artist
Christopher Rabilwongse ... puppet painter
Leon Rize ... storyboard artist
Lou Romano ... concept artist
Kyle Rossi ... set shop pa
Whitney G. Schmerber ... Model Shop Coordinator
Daniela Scovel ... production assistant
Morgan Sheffield ... ink and paint
Sara Spink ... puppet painter
Becky Steele ... puppet wrangler
Joshua Storey ... head of puppet painting
Anna Featherly Sutton ... puppet fabricator
Shannon Tindle ... character designer / storyboard artist
Aileen Portia Tolentino ... moldmaker
Scott Tom ... puppet fabricator
Jon Warren ... supervisor: art fabrication
Austen Weitzel ... puppet fabrication
Leah Williams ... Model Shop Coordinator
George Willis ... model maker
Guillermo Martinez ... storyboard artist (uncredited)

Sound Department

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Gregg Barbanell ... foley artist
Tim Chau ... re-recording mixer / sound designer / supervising sound editor
Travis Crotts ... foley editor
Thomas De Pauw ... flemish dialogue recorder
Darlene Gorzela ... additional sound
Catherine Harper ... foley artist
Mark Kenna ... dolby atmos consultant
Tim LeBlanc ... re-recording mixer
Sotiris Loukatos ... Re-Recording engineer
Darrin Mann ... foley mixer
Thomas O'Neil Younkman ... sound effects editor
Carlos Sotolongo ... original dialogue mixer
Eric Stolberg ... sound recordist
Brian Tarlecki ... mixing technician
Clayton Weber ... sound editor
Bryon Williams ... re-recording stage engineer
Dominic Boucher ... uncredited
Shayna Brown ... adr recordist (uncredited)
Chris Erlon ... sound recordist (uncredited)
Adam Risner ... uncredited

Special Effects by

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Shea Bordo ... lead silicone and foam caster
Matt Cole ... hand fabricator
Matthew DeLeu ... miniature lighting and electronics
Brooke Duckart ... hair and fur fabricator
Toby Froud ... sculptor
Mark Gaiero ... armaturist
Chris Gough ... animation rigger
Brian Hahn ... head of mechanical fabrication
Shami Lang-Rinderspacher ... animation rigger
Faon Lewis ... head of silicone and foam
Jessica Lynn ... head of hair and fur
Aaron Matthews ... silicone department
Angela Muldoon ... Armaturist
Emily D. Myers ... Armaturist (as Emily Myers)
David Pugh ... animation rigger
Graham Read ... Armaturist
Jeremy Spake ... head of armature
Gabriel Temme ... puppet fabrication generalist
Sid Tucker ... Armaturist
Chris Walker ... foam & silicone technician
Patrick Weinberg ... animation rigger
TaMara Carlson Woodard ... hair and fur fabricator (as Tamara Carlson)
Patrick Zung ... lead armaturist

Visual Effects by

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Anthony Aiello ... production technology
Adrienne Anderson ... visual effects scheduler
Steve Arguello ... Senior Modeler
Joe Beckley ... matte painter / texture artist
Matthew Beightol ... compositor / senior roto/paint artist
Kane Brassington ... senior roto/paint artist
Phil Brotherton ... visual effects
Tory Bryant ... lead texture artist
Billy Cabey ... layout artist
Daniel Casey ... texture artist
Daniel R. Casey ... layout artist
Aaron Charny ... roto/paint artist
Nicholas Childs ... compositor
Michael Cordova ... senior compositor
Gentry Davidson ... digital artist
Jon Dobson ... technical director
Dustin Dybevik ... roto/paint artist
Austin Eddy ... CG Animator
Ken Egly ... visual effects coordinator
Steve Emerson ... visual effects supervisor
Daria Eremina ... cg rigger
Maria Fery ... roto/paint artist
Todd Gilchrist ... Visual Effects Editor
Andrew Gotham ... visual effects coordinator
Justin Graham ... lead roto/paint artist
Emily Greene ... visual effects
Micah Henrie ... technical director
Jorge Heredia ... senior roto/paint artist
Veronica Hernandez ... senior roto/paint artist
David Horsley ... lead digital effects animator
Sara Ireland ... compositor
Dhanad Islam ... Junior CG Modeler
Nick Jauregui ... vfx survey/matchmover
Timur Khodzhaev ... senior compositor
Karl Kohlman ... visual effects artist
Takashi Kubota ... effects aritst / visual effects (as Takashi Kuboto)
Tarun Lak ... VFX Animation Intern
Grant Laker ... CG Asset Creation Lead
Lars C. Larsen ... animation rigger
Daniel Leatherdale ... compositor: LAIKA
Benjamin Lishka ... lighter
Alastair Macleod ... animation technical director
Nick Mariana ... visual effects
Ira Owens ... previs artist
Pranay Patel ... sr. pipeline engineer
Tilman Paulin ... compositing lead: LAIKA
James Pina ... compositor
Ben Posey ... roto-paint artist
Jason Potter ... data wrangler
Mitch Prater ... shading systems architect
Ralph Procida ... senior compositor
Tina Rangel ... roto paint artist
Michelle Ross ... cg animator
Tarek Saleh ... roto / paint artist
Eric Schultz ... texturing artist: Laika LLC
Richard Sevy ... cg supervisor
Dan Short ... digital compositor
Brice Shultz ... compositor
Nik Siefke ... data wrangler
Amelia 'Mia' Sires ... data/render wrangler
Kim Slate ... visual effects
Jeff W. Smith ... matchmove integration and layout
Kaci Smith ... roto paint artist
Joelle Spencer-Gilchrist ... visual effects production manager
Joe Strasser ... lighting technical director: Laika
Peter Stuart ... effects animator
Mike Terpstra ... compositor
Terrance Tornberg ... cg lighting lead
Trish Van't Hul ... senior paint artist
Peter Vickery ... associate vfx supervisor
Eric Wachtman ... lead look development
Holly Webster ... visual effects artist: modeler / visual effects artist: texture artist
Christopher Weinberg ... surveyor & matchmover: charming
Curtis Darwin Zinn ... digital compositor

Stunts

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Nick Benseman ... stunt rigger
Mickey Facchinello ... pre-viz stunts
Brendon Huor ... pre-viz stunts
Jeremy Marinas ... pre-viz stunts
Aaron Toney ... fight choreographer / fight coordinator / stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department

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John Ashlee ... lighting camera
Gavin Brown ... assistant camera trainee
Jake Carlson ... assistant camera
Tyson Carpenter ... gaffer
Christopher Covel ... assistant camera
Drew Fortier ... assistant camera
Bryan Garver ... supervising gaffer
Gunnar Heidar ... motion control technician
Dean Holmes ... lighting camera
Mark Hughes ... lighting camera
John Leonhardt ... assistant camera trainee
Jesse Levitt ... assistant camera
Jason Ptaszek ... asset photographer
Mark Stewart ... lighting cameraman
David Trappe ... motion capture camera operator
Trahern Wells ... gaffer
James WilderHancock ... gaffer

Animation Department

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Benjamin William Adams ... inbetween artist
Albert Adee ... rapid prototyping fabricator
Daniel Alderson ... animator
Claudia Amatulli ... animation coordinator
Graham Annable ... story board artist
Hannah Quick Antico ... rp cg rigger
John Aoshima ... Head of Story / story artist
Debra Armstrong ... key assistant animator: 2d end credits
Andy Bailey ... stop motion animator
Micah Baker ... rapid prototype quality assurance
Kyle Bell ... facial animation supervisor
Ludovic Berardo ... stop motion animator
Michael Berger ... cg modeler
Rebecca Black-Gliko ... rapid prototype quality assurance
Sean Burns ... cg facial animator
Thiago Calçado ... animator
Dominic Cardoso ... rapid prototyping fabricator
Daniel Cespedes ... rapid prototype quality assurance
Emanuela Cozzi ... storyboard artist
Jeff Croke ... cg facial animator
Phil Dale ... stop motion animator
Margie Daniels ... key assistant animator: closing animation
Clint K. Deadmond ... rapid prototype quality assurance
Robert Ducey ... technical director: animation
Helen Duckworth ... cg modeler
Matt Ellsworth ... Facial Animator
Anthony Elworthy ... stop motion animator
Justin Fischer ... rigging technical director
Adam Fisher ... assistant animator
Kingman Gallagher ... lead rp fabricator
Daniel Gill ... animator
Anna Glanton ... rapid prototype quality assurance
Joe Gorski ... cg animator
Martha Grant ... Replacement Animation Specialist
Charles Greenfield ... stop motion animator
Sean Gregory ... assistant animator
Shauna Hagerman ... rapid prototype quality assurance
Brian Leif Hansen ... stop motion animator
Joel Hasse ... animator
Morgan Hay ... lead rp fabricator
Mike Hollenbeck ... stop motion animator
Tina T. Hsu ... rapid prototype quality assurance
Terence Jacobson ... Rigger
Ty Johnson ... cg modeler
Jesse J. Jones ... ink and paint artist (as Jesse Jones)
Oliver Jones ... animation rigging supervisor
Travis Knight ... animator
Danail Kraev ... animator
Tarun Lak ... cg crowds animation intern
Rachelle Lambden ... animator
Malcolm Lamont ... lead stop motion animator
Michael Laubach ... lead technical director: rigging
Adam Lawthers ... cg facial animator
Matias Liebrecht ... animator
Arthur D. Lindfield ... animation rigger
Tingting Liu ... RP Facial animator
Jessica Salesky Lowe ... rapid prototype quality assurance lead
Ben Luce ... ink and paint artist
Jan-Erik Maas ... animator (as Jan Maas)
Dan MacKenzie ... additional animator
Peter McCown ... character supervisor
Brian McLean ... director of rapid prototyping
Mary McOmber ... rapid prototype senior quality assurance
Ann Moore ... rapid prototype quality assurance
Jeremy Murphy ... assistant animator
Julian Narino ... storyboard artist
Angela Novak ... Lead 3D Printer Technician
Shannon O'Neill ... head of background: puppet fabrication
Brian Ormiston ... storyboard artist
Shawn Palmer ... story artist
Suzy Parr ... animator
Kevin Parry ... stop motion animator
Florian Perinelle ... animator / stop motion animator
Nicky Kriara Peterson ... RP Replacement Animation Tester
Jessica Polaniecki ... RP Replacement Animation Tester
Zachary Rahman ... facial animator
Justin M. Rasch ... animator
Joseph Reaves ... rapid prototype quality assurance
Hals Reynolds ... rapid prototype quality assurance
Jeff Riley ... stop motion animator (as Jeffrey Riley)
Jisoo Rim ... rapid prototype quality assurance
Baptiste Rogron ... animator / animator: 2D
Veronica Rosser ... rapid prototype quality assurance
Alyssa Choate Rusche ... quality assurance
Brett Scanlon ... rapid prototype quality assurance
Matthew J. Schiavone ... cg facial animation production coordinator
Brad Schiff ... animation supervisor
Jeremiah Servais ... rapid prototype quality assurance
Brice Shultz ... rapid prototype quality assurance (as Brice Schultz)
Kristen Shultz ... rapid prototype quality assurance (as Kristen Schultz)
Kim Slate ... cg facial animator
Gabe Sprenger ... stop motion animator
Dhivyasimhon Sridharan ... rigging intern
Jason Stalman ... animator
Anthony Straus ... stop motion animator
Jerry Svoboda ... stop motion animation rigger
Philippe Tardif ... animator / animator: end titles
Neil Taylor ... rapid prototype quality assurance
Trey Thomas ... additional animator
Shannon Tindle ... character designer
Danie Townsley ... rapid prototyping fabricator (as Danie West)
Chris Tran ... cg modeler
Ann Whim Tseng ... rapid prototype quality assurance
Carolyn Vale ... cg facial animator
Marcos Valin ... animator
David Vandervoort ... lead 2d facial designer / supervising animator: end credits
Steve Warne ... additional animator
Ian Whitlock ... stop motion animator
Kyle Williams ... cg modeler
Ning Xu ... animation trainee
Dobrin Yanev ... stop motion animator
Mingquan Charles Zhou ... RP Rigger
Andrew Zubko ... Replacement Animation Tester
Sandro Cleuzo ... 2d animator (uncredited)
Tim Garbutt ... end credit sequence: compositor (uncredited)
Onyee Lo ... cg facial animation intern (uncredited)
Nicholas Vincent ... 3D Printer Technician (uncredited)

Casting Department

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Judy Cook ... adr voice casting
Ben Harris ... casting associate
Peter John Kousakis ... casting assistant (as Peter Kousakis)
Ashley Lambert ... adr voice casting

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Sarah Lane ... head of costume
Thalia Lane ... Head of Costume Fabrication
Colette Nickola ... costumer
Anja Poland ... costume fabricator
Becky Redhead ... costume fabricator
Annika Schindler ... costumer
Aine Woods ... costume fabricator

Music Department

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Geoff Alexander ... conductor / orchestrator
Emily Appleton Holley ... assistant score supervisor
Atanas Babaleski ... scoring pro tools operator
Clive Bell ... musician: shakuhachi
James Bellamy ... music editor
Joby Burgess ... musician: percussion
Thomas Cepeda ... composer: additional music - behind the scenes DVD
Dominick Certo ... music editor
Fiona Cruickshank ... additional engineering
Timeri Duplat ... assistant music editor
F.A.M.E.'S. Project ... orchestra and studio contractor: trailer music
Alex Ferguson ... assistant engineer
Melissa Holding ... musician: koto
Georgi Hristovski ... score recording engineer
Hibiki Ichikawa ... musician: shamisen
Kevin Kmetz ... musician: shamisen (as Kevin Masaya Kmetz)
Libera ... singers
Isaac London ... musician
Dario Marianelli ... orchestrator
Sara Matarazzo ... music supervisor
Adam Miller ... additional engineering / score recordist
Melanie Pappenheim ... solo vocalist
Maggie Rodford ... score supervisor
Robin Stout ... trailer score by (as Superhuman)
Superhuman ... trailer score by
Liam Westbrook ... trailer score by (as Superhuman)
Nick Wollage ... score engineer and mixer
Jacob Yoffee ... custom trailer music

Additional Crew

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Maria Andreotti ... puppet fabrication production assistant
Cassandra Barbour ... rights and clearances
Maggie Begley ... publicist
Jason Bryant ... production accountant
Brad Burns ... Production Runner
Chris Butler ... head of story
Marina Capizzi ... production runner
Rosemary A. Colliver ... General Counsel & Head of Business Affairs
David J. Epstein ... assistant production coordinator
Monica Fedrick ... title sequence graphics
John Henry Frankenhauser ... systems administrator
Tim Garbutt ... graphic designer
Rose Grisel García Jiménez ... Publicist (as Rose Grisel)
Danika Gernhart ... Accountant (as Danika Burtt)
Taro Goto ... production consultant
Evan Hailstone ... production runner
Daniel Heale ... marketing agency executive
Michael Hix ... information technology: Laika studio support
Andrew Hollandsworth ... production runner
Emily Shinyi Hsu ... assistant to producer
Stephanie Keske ... production technology
Travis Knight ... studio leadership: Laika
Christina Mackin ... assistant: producer/director
Elias Mael ... digital cinema package
Neri Marcorè ... voice dubbing: Beetle
Kyle Melton ... media engineer
Phr Mitzi Ang ... Human Resources (as Mitzi Ang)
Owen Nelson ... software engineer
Anh Khoa Ngo ... production technology
Julia Oliver ... studio archivist
Martin Pelham ... manager: media services
Kathy Radcliffe ... executive assistant: Travis Knight
David J. Rowe ... IT Manager System Support
Jenniphur Ryan ... Legal & Business Affairs
Tyler M. Saunders ... production coordinator
Mark Shapiro ... brand and marketing management
Kara Sinclair ... production runner
Jeff Stringer ... Production Technology
Katy Strutz ... puppet fabrication intern
Matthew J.D. Thill ... production runner
Sara Vahabi ... publicity consultant
Jeff Vandehey ... intormation & technology
Michael Weist ... Influencer Promotions Manager: independent contractor
Jacqueline White ... head of media services
Steven Wong Jr. ... Junior Unit Photographer
Nickolas Zolotko ... systems administrator

Thanks

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Kyle Abbott ... thanks
Megan Ganz ... special thanks
Sean Guttman ... thanks
Olivia Harrison ... special thanks
Jon Hiller ... thanks
Misako Ito ... thanks
Jay Kogen ... thanks
Nick Meisel ... thanks
Dawn Levy Vance ... thanks: executive travel edge
Dawn Yamada ... thanks

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Storyline

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Plot Summary

Kubo lives a quiet, normal life in a small shoreside village until a spirit from the past turns his life upside down by re-igniting an age-old vendetta. This causes all sorts of havoc as gods and monsters chase Kubo who, in order to survive, must locate a magical suit of armor once worn by his late father, a legendary Samurai warrior.

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Taglines The quest begins See more »
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Also Known As
  • Kubo: Nihon no Gen no Himitsu (Japan)
  • KUBO クボ　二本の弦の秘密 (Japan, Japanese title)
  • Kubo et l'armure magique (France)
  • Kubo: Der tapfere Samurai (Germany)
  • Kubo y las dos cuerdas mágicas (Spain)
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Runtime
  • 101 min
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Box Office

Budget $60,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend United States $12,608,372, 19 Aug 2016
Cumulative Worldwide Gross $76,257,813

Did You Know?

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Trivia The Skeleton Demon (based on the Gashadokuro of Japanese folklore) is the largest stop-motion puppet to be built, standing at eighteen feet tall. See more »
Goofs Kubo is told in his dream to "follow the setting sun" in order to find the helmet. He immediately wakes up and leads his group into the rising sun. Then the shadows indicate light is behind them, then in front again. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Episode #14.33 (2016). See more »
Soundtracks While My Guitar Gently Weeps See more »
Crazy Credits The initial end credits appear over a background animation of characters and scenes from the film, as well as scenes from Japanese culture. After this, there is a time-lapse sequence that depicts the assembly of the giant skeleton demon. The credits then continue with images and short animations of elements of the film (characters, backgrounds, etc.) appearing beside the credits. See more »
Quotes Beetle: I have a question. If I'm Beetle and you're Monkey, why isn't he called Boy?
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