Belle is the anime that Mamoru Hosoda has always wanted to make. The latest film from the director of Summer Wars, Wolf Children, and Mirai centers on the story of Suzu, a shy high school student who ...

As Disney's animated classic Beauty and The Beast showed us, Belle's book-a-day reading habit didn't make her any friends, and it certainly didn't pay the bills. Did she even have a job? Emma Watson, ...

A high-tech anime riff on Beauty and the Beast set between the virtual and the real, the shimmering new film from Oscar-nominated Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda (Mirai; Wolf Children) is a fable for ...

In the French Provincial town where Belle lives, it's expected that she, as a woman, do the laundry. During the song "Belle," she walks by an entire group of women and girls doing precisely that. But, ...