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"That won't happen. It is only right that different directors
create totally different works," Hosoda, 49, told Reuters TV
ahead of the Tokyo International Film Festival next month where
a retrospective of his work will be shown.
"I think there are movies that only I can create and movies that
only I know how to make people enjoy them," he said.
Hosoda's rise to fame culminated with his 2015 box office hit
"Boy and the Beast", which grossed over 5.8 billion yen ($57
million) to become the second most watched movie in Japanese
theaters that year.
His movies are colorful and vibrant and appear to follow in
Oscar-winning Miyazaki's footsteps. However, Hosoda regularly
chooses themes related to family and identity, which disappoint
some fans who seek the more immersive fantasy provided by works
out of Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli.
"The Boy and the Beast" explores the relationship between a
paternal beast-father figure and a run-away child. His previous
film, "Wolf Children", centered on a single mother raising
children fathered by a werewolf.
Hosoda said his deeper exploration of the meaning of
self-identity in an extremely homogeneous nation are often lost
on viewers.
"I think there are possibly people in the audience here who were
not able to understand that. And that, in a way, is
representative of Japan today," he said.
Hosoda is hopeful for the future of Japan's animation industry
despite the fact that more and more animators rely on computer
graphics to polish their work.
"There are, or should be, multiple correct ways to express
oneself in animation," he said.
"If you start saying that only Disney or Pixar animations are
the right kind of animations, that just becomes very boring. If
everything needs to have computer graphics then you lose a lot
of the richness in expression available in animations," he
added.
"The World Of Mamoru Hosoda" retrospective runs from October 25
to November 3 at the Tokyo International Film Festival and will
include movies such as the critically acclaimed "Summer Wars".
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