Belle’s Music Video Takes Us on a Sumptuous Tour of a Digital World

Ahead of Belle’s Japanese launch this week (and its premiere at Cannes), our newest look at Mamoru Hosoda’s follow-as much as Mirai comes within the type of a music video for the movie’s digital pop-idol protagonist—and offers us some extra glimpses of its distinct fantasy world.

“U” is carried out by Millennium Parade and Kaho Nakamura, the voice of Belle within the movie. Which is sensible, because the movie follows Japanese excessive schooler Suzu, who escapes her rural life to spend her free time in an internet world the place she masquerades as Belle, changing into a smash hit singer within the course of.

It’s a snazzy tune, however the main attraction of the music video is to get a glance contained in the world of U, the place Suzu and billions of different individuals the world over rework into dazzling digital avatars of all sizes and styles. And they’re not all pleasant, as Belle discovers, when she encounters a mysterious beast-like creature, armies of mysterious masked sci-fi warriors, and extra. It truthfully appears unimaginable—the distinction between the gleaming results of the digital world and the standard aesthetics we see in glimpses of Suzu’s regular life is reasonably one thing to behold.

And we’ll have to attend a short while to behold it ourselves—whereas Belle releases in Japan tomorrow, it received’t be out within the U.S. till later this 12 months, after GKids not too long ago introduced it had acquired distribution rights to the film. The movie, which options character designs from Tangled, Frozen, and Moana designer Jin Kim, in addition to Wolfwalker’s Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart—plus a soundtrack not simply from Millennium Parade however Death Stranding’s Ludvig Forssell—wailing arrive within the U.S. in late 2021.

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