Atari gives Chief a bath, revealing his white and black-spotted coat and thus his striking resemblance to Spots. Kobayashi and his political party are revealed to be actually responsible for the dog flu outbreak, seeking to eliminate the dogs as Kobayashi's cat-loving ancestors tried to do 1,000 years ago, who were foiled by a child samurai resembling Atari.ĭuring their journey, Chief and Atari are separated from the others. In the process of investigating, she gains feelings for Atari. Tracy Walker, an American exchange student and member of a pro-dog activist group, suspects a conspiracy and begins to investigate. The professor objects, only to be put under house arrest and killed by a piece of poisoned sushi by order of the mayor's hatchet man, Major Domo. Meanwhile, Watanabe finally develops a successful serum and shows the results to Kobayashi, who only dismisses him. The pack seeks advice from sage-like dogs Jupiter and Oracle, who surmise that Spots might be held captive by an isolated tribe of dogs rumored to be cannibals. Chief initially declines, but is then convinced by Nutmeg, a female ex- show dog, to help the boy out of obligation. Atari decides to continue his search for Spots, and the pack decides to help him. They then fend off a rescue team sent by Kobayashi to retrieve Atari. With their help, Atari first finds a locked cage that apparently contains Spots' skeleton, but learns that it is not him. After crash-landing, Atari is rescued by a dog pack ostensibly led by an all-black canine named Chief, a lifelong stray. Six months later, Atari hijacks a plane and flies it to Trash Island (now nicknamed "Isle of Dogs") to search for Spots. In this film, none of the Japanese dialogue spoken by human characters is translated in the movie except through an interpreter or occasional subtitles. The first deported canine is a white and black-spotted dog named Spots Kobayashi, who served as the bodyguard dog of 12-year-old orphan Atari Kobayashi, the mayor's distant nephew and ward. The city's authoritarian mayor, Kenji Kobayashi, ratifies an official decree banishing all dogs to Trash Island, which is immediately approved despite the insistence of Professor Watanabe, the mayor's political opponent, who states he is close to creating a cure. Twenty years in the future, an outbreak of canine flu spreads throughout Japan including the (fictitious) city of Megasaki with the risk of becoming contagious to humans. The film received nominations at the 76th Golden Globe Awards, 72nd British Academy Film Awards, and two nominations at the 91st Academy Awards, for Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Score, but lost to both Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (which also starred Schreiber) and Black Panther respectively. A manga adaptation of the film by Minetarō Mochizuki was published in 2018, beginning with the May 24 issue of Weekly Morning. It has grossed over $64 million worldwide, and received acclaim from critics, who praised its animation, story, musical score, and deadpan humor. It was given a limited release in the United States on March 23, 2018, by Fox Searchlight Pictures, and went on wide release on April 13. The film opened the 68th Berlin International Film Festival, where Anderson was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Director. Kobayashi’s nephew Atari sets out to find his missing dog Spots with the help of a group of dogs led by stray dog Chief.Ī U.S.–German co-production, Isle of Dogs was produced by Indian Paintbrush and Anderson's own production company, American Empirical Pictures, in association with Studio Babelsberg it was filmed in the United Kingdom. The film is set in the fictional retro-futuristic Japanese city of Megasaki, where Mayor Kenji Kobayashi has banished all dogs to Trash Island due to a canine influenza pandemic. Vance, Yojiro Noda, Fisher Stevens, Mari Natsuki, Nijiro Murakami, Yoko Ono, Harvey Keitel, and Frank Wood. Isle of Dogs ( Japanese: 犬ヶ島, Hepburn: Inugashima) is a 2018 adult stop-motion animated science fiction drama film written, produced, and directed by Wes Anderson and starring an ensemble cast consisting of Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Jeff Goldblum, Scarlett Johansson, Kunichi Nomura, Tilda Swinton, Ken Watanabe, Akira Ito, Greta Gerwig, Akira Takayama, Frances McDormand, F.
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