I leave to individual viewers to decide whether this is a way of center-staging the hounds-my view-or sidelining the Asian protagonists.) Under the false pretenses of “canine saturation,” “dog flu,” and “snout fever,” the essentially hereditary mayor, Kobayashi (Kunichi Nomura), has banished dogs from the city, resettling them on “Trash Island,” which is exactly what it sounds like: an apocalyptic dump reminiscent of the detritus-laden world that Wall-E the robot was left to clean up.īut what a dump it is-filthy and fetid, yet somehow utterly gorgeous. (Unlike the dogs, the Japanese characters-which is to say all of the human beings save one-do not have their words rendered into English, except when explicitly restated by a translator voiced by Frances McDormand. ![]() The film takes the form of a fable, set in the near future in the fictional Japanese city of Megasaki.
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