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And now, Jim Hill. Welcome to fine-tuning with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and commentary.

I'm Drew's co-host, entertainment writer Jim Hill, and we're here with a special edition because we've just had the

Oscar nominations come out and I can't say Drew that I'm all that surprised at how things took out?

No, not at all. I mean, should we go through the nominees?

Actually, I want to thank you. Drew was kind enough to hook me up with a screener of Marai.

I want to get the name right, Marau Housado film?

Yes.

I genuinely enjoyed that.

That was a charmer. It's sort of a it's hard to call it a coming of age film because the kids four years old.

But he's upset that his baby sister Marai has come into his world and upset his routine, but the film has this wonderful fantasy element of drifting to the past, drifting to the future, and the lessons that Coon, the four-year-old, learns

from his grandfather, from his dog, from his sister, from the future, and...

Yes. It's actually really well done and it was out in Japan I want to say back in

well it premiered at the directors fortnight at Ken last May, yeah.

And then I think it's been rolled out last year.

Was it released in Japan in July of last year

and I guess the state side, it started,

state side run in November.

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