Anyone would grant that a Japanese anime that transplants “Hamlet” to a surreal netherworld is a touch more ambitious than ...

"Words, words, words," Hamlet says to Polonius when questioned about what he is reading. There are certainly many of them in his namesake play, which clocks in at about four hours if done uncut.

In these opening moments, director Mamoru Hosoda (Belle) transports viewers to a fantastic realm, one where the past and ...

In Hamlet, Shakespeare’s protagonist wrestled with the responsibility of avenging his royal father. Hosoda borrows the Bard’s Danish setting and aspects of the play’s palace intrigue — not to mention ...