NEW YORK (January 27, 2025) – GKIDS, the Academy Award®-winning distributor of artist-driven and award-winning animation from around the world, announced today that beginning in 2025, it will issue in partnership with Shout! Studios all-new 4K UHD releases of award-winning director Mamoru Hosoda’s early film catalog.
The first titles in the series to receive a reissue are Oscar-nominated director Mamoru Hosoda’s seminal 2009 feature
Summer Wars, and critically lauded 2012 hit
Wolf Children. The new home entertainment releases will be presented with brand new artwork in a 4K UHD SteelBook® version, a standard Blu-ray™ issue, and on digital download-to-own platforms. New issues for Summer Wars will be released on April 1, 2025, and Wolf Children on August 5, 2025. Both titles are now available for
preorder.
Summer Wars Pre-Order:
gkids.com/films/summer-wars
Wolf Children Pre-Order:
gkids.com/films/wolf-children
Bonus Features - Summer Wars
● Interviews with the Original Cast - Ryunosuke Kamiki (Kenji Koiso)
● Interviews with the Original Cast - Nanami Sakuraba (Natsuki Shinohara)
● Interviews with the Original Cast - Mitsuki Tanimura (Kazuma Ikezawa)
● Interviews with the Original Cast - Ayumu Saito (Wabisuke Jinnouchi)
● Interviews with the Original Cast - Sumiko Fuji (Sakae Jinnouchi)
● Interview with Mamoru Hosoda
● Teasers & Trailers
Last year, GKIDS announced it had acquired the North American distribution rights to the Mamoru Hosoda catalog of films. GKIDS previously released the Academy Award®- and Golden Globe-nominated Mirai (2018), and the critically lauded Belle (2021), which became Hosoda’s highest grossing film to date in North America. The director Mamoru Hosoda’s six features have all been nominated for, and five have been awarded, the Japan Academy Prize for “Animation of the Year.” Hosoda remains the only Japanese animation director outside of the famed Studio Ghibli to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature.
