Shirobako: The Movie

Here's a film that remembers how hard animation production is. Aoi Miyamori returns to a struggling Musashino Animation to manage a new theatrical project with a tight deadline. It is a film about the nuts and bolts, for those who like that sort of thing.

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Tsutomu Mizushima directed Shirobako: The Movie in 2020. See Tsutomu Mizushima's full filmography, where to start with Tsutomu Mizushima, or where to go after you've seen everything by Tsutomu Mizushima.

Shirobako: The Movie was released in 2020 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 119 minutes.