Kubo (voiced by Art Parkinson) is swept up by origami wings ... skeletons -- called armatures -- which are all designed in-house at LAIKA with wires, steel, and ball and socket joints, then ...

Below, Knight discusses his passion for Japanese art, the many visual inspirations for the film, Kubo‘s unique color palette, and his hopes for the next ten years of Laika. Related Stories News ...

it’s a love of the transcendent art of Japan that I got from my dad, all bound together that became about the sustaining love of a family. The Japanese fantasy aesthetic of Kubo is quite a ...

The picture concerns a young boy, Kubo (Art Parkinson), who lives alone with ... As I said two years ago, there is no current filmmaking production house out there that is more exciting to me ...

Kubo (Art Parkinson), who lives with his invalid mother in a cliffside cave, earns money by traveling to the nearby town each day to tell stories to the villagers. He uses the magic in his guitar ...

“Susanna has created a beautiful, devastating and ultimately life-affirming work of art [in Piranesi], and I ... a titular narrator trapped inside a house containing a sprawling universe ...

Armed with a long, square-bodied lute-like instrument called a shamisen and a stack of origami paper, Kubo (Art Parkinson, whose voice sounds ready for adventure) spends his days spinning ...

Helping Kubo (voice of Art Parkinson) in his search for his father’s sword, armor and helmet are the film’s girl-power figure — a fierce female monkey (Charlize Theron) — and a very ...