Isle of Dogs (2018)

Name: Isle of Dogs
Director: Wes Anderson
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Animation
Released: 2018-03-23
Duration: 1 h 41 min
Cast: Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Bob Balaban, Edward Norton

Adventure Comedy Animation

Director: Wes Anderson

Cast: Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Bob Balaban, Edward Norton

Runtime101 min

RatingPG

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In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.

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Fans of Wes Anderson's distinctive visual style and quirky, character-driven storytelling will find much to enjoy in the 2018 animated film Isle of Dogs. With a stellar voice cast including Bryan Cranston and Edward Norton, the movie blends adventure, comedy, and social commentary in a unique tale of a young boy searching for his lost dog on a garbage-filled island inhabited by exiled canines.

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Isle of Dogs is a 2018 adult stop-motion animated science fiction comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by Wes Anderson, narrated by Courtney B. Vance 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. Murray Abraham, Yojiro Noda, Fisher Stevens, Mari Natsuki, Nijiro Murakami, Yoko Ono, Harvey Keitel and Frank Wood. An American-German-British co-production, Isle of Dogs was produced by Studio Babelsberg and Indian Paintbrush in association with Anderson's own company American Empirical Pictures. This was Anderson's second stop-motion film, following Fantastic Mr. Fox. The film is set in the fictional Japanese city of Megasaki where Mayor Kenji Kobayashi has banished all dogs to Trash Island due to a canine influenza pandemic. 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.