Japanese anime has problem with women and girls: Hosoda

　フランスでの第74回カンヌ国際映画祭で、細田守監督の新作アニメーション「竜とそばかすの姫」が公式上映された。今年新設されたカンヌプレミア部門に選ばれ、細田監督も上映に立ち会った。

『竜とそばかすの姫』は『時をかける少女』『サマーウォーズ』などで知られる細田監督にとって『未来のミライ』以来3年ぶりとなる新作。日本でも7月16日に全国で公開された。

　今日のGetUpEnglishはこのニュースを読んでみよう。

　https://www.newagebd.net/article/143921/japanese-anime-has-problem-with-women-and-girls-hosoda

Mamoru Hosoda has bones to pick with both Steven Spielberg and Hayao Miyazaki, the other great Japanese animator to whom he is often compared.

　has(have) bones to pick with...: ～に文句がある、～に対して言うことがある

Hosoda -- whose brilliantly humane ‘Mirai’ got an Oscar nod three years ago -- has had enough of the way Hollywood treats the digital world and Miyazaki depicts women.

　Oscar nod: アカデミー賞のノミネート。

The dystopian tropes about the internet that run through so many movies, including Steven Spielberg’s ‘Ready Player One’, are not doing anyone any favours, particularly women, Hosoda told AFP at the Cannes film festival, as his latest feature ‘Belle’ premiered.

　trope(s): 比喩、修辞技法

First reviews of the movie were ecstatic with Hosoda getting a 14-minute standing ovation.

The Hollywood Reporter said its ‘wildly imaginative futureworld takes your breath away’ as the story rises to a ‘series of swelling emotional crescendos’ that are always rooted in real emotion.

　emotional crescendo(s): 感情の高ぶり。crescendoは「(感情などの)盛り上がり、最高潮」

And top US critic Anne Thompson of Indiewire predicted Oscar glory for Hosoda.

Father of a young girl himself, the Japanese master told AFP he wants to empower her generation to take control of their digital destinies rather than cower in fear.

　cower in fear: 恐怖におびえる。cowerは「(恐怖などで)ちぢこまる、すくむ」

‘They have grown up with the net... yet are constantly told how malevolent and dangerous it is,’ Hosoda said.

‘Belle’ is his riposte, a spectacular dive into the rollercoaster emotional life of a shy adolescent girl called Suzu, in a 21st century take on ‘Beauty and the Beast’.

　riposte: 反撃、しっぺ返し

『竜とそばかすの姫』は高知に住む17歳の高校生すずの物語。すずインターネット上の仮想世界「U〈ユー〉」で歌姫として世界的な人気を得るが、秘密を抱えた乱暴な「竜」に邪魔される。「美女と野獣」を想起させる物語で、誹謗（ひぼう）中傷があふれる世界の中で少しずつ心を開いていく姿を描く。英題はBelle.