Following its premiere at the 2024 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, The Imaginary will stream on Netflix beginning July 5. In introducing Amanda, her imaginary friend Rudger, and her ...

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Hitting Netflix on July 5, the animated odyssey “The Imaginary” follows a young girl and her invisible best friend, beginning in an attic where grieving Amanda hatches fantasy yarns with her fictive ...

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This review of The Imaginary is timed to the film’s festival premiere at France’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival. The film will stream on Netflix in America starting on July 5. The ...

Producer Yoshiaki Nishimura tells IndieWire how the cultural role of animation itself helped inspire "The Imaginary." Nishimura had no problem relating to the mind-bending adventures of young Amanda ...

Yoshiyuki Momose directs the second full-length feature from the Japanese company spun out of Studio Ghibli, about a young girl's make-believe friend who endeavors to save her and their relationship.

The Imaginary first released across theaters in Japan earlier this year, and is even preparing to hit Blu-ray and DVD shelves overseas this Spring. But thankfully it’s not going to be that much longer ...