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U.S. Theater Chain AMC Lists The Boy and the Beast Anime Film as Opening in February

American theater chain The Boy and The Beast (Bakemono no Ko) anime film. The Laemmle theater chain in California and the Amherst Cinema theater in Massachusetts are also listing that the film will open in these theaters on March 4 and March 5, respectively.

Gaumont is handling international sales outside Asia. Funimation is working with Gaumont International to release the film.

The Fantasic Film Festival in Austin screened the film for a week last month.

The story of The Boy and The Beast is set in the human realm (Tokyo's Shibuya ward) and the bakemono realm ("Jūtengai"). In these two worlds that must not intersect, there lives a lonely boy and a lonely bakemono. One day, the boy gets lost in the bakemono world, becomes the disciple of the bakemono Kumatetsu, and is renamed Kyūta.

The film highest grossing domestic film in Japan in 2015.

Hosoda (Masakatsu Takagi (Wolf Children) scored the soundtrack.

licensed the film's novel and manga adaptation, and it will release the novel and the first volume of the manga on February 23.

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