The animated function movie Kensuke’s Kingdom had its British community TV premiere earlier this month on Sunday, 3 August on BBC One, which implies that it’s now out there on BBC iPlayer till subsequent 12 months!
Tailored from the Michael Morpurgo novel of the identical identify the movie was a part of the BBC’s programming to mark the eightieth anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with the latter that includes within the backstory of the outdated Japanese soldier Kensuke (voiced by Ken Watanabe).
It’s a beautiful hand-drawn animated journey from Lupus Movies, directed by Neil Boyle and Kirk Hendry, additionally starring the voice abilities of Sally Hawkins, Cillian Murphy, Raffey Cassidy and Aaron Macgregor.
Most notably, the movie incorporates a terrific symphonic rating by Stuart Hancock, and the rating picked up 15 awards , together with finally 12 months’s British Animation Awards and Worldwide Music+Sound Awards. And the IMFCA (Worldwide Movie Music Critics Affiliation) voted it one of many Prime 5 Scores of the 12 months throughout all new movie and tv productions in 2024.
Trying forward, Hancock is composing the music scores for 2 contrasting new function movies: the sci-fi journey Stargazers for director Jonathan Brooks, and the motion movie Unhealthy Day on the Workplace, starring John Hannah and Radha Mitchell, for director Chee Keong Cheung. The brief movies Largo and A Buddy of Dorothy, that includes his scores, at the moment are enjoying festivals so hold your eye out for them.
Kensuke’s Kingdom is out there on BBC iPlayer.
