Boro the Caterpillar

Boro the Caterpillar (2018)

毛虫のボロ

Just before dawn, Boro the Caterpillar hatched from an egg among patches of scrub grass. Looking around for the first time, he noticed the brilliance of the morning sun and a deliciousness in the air. Boro lowered himself down to the ground from the groundsel, and stepped out into the world of caterpillars and caterpillars' enemies.

Date of release
2018-03-21
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (7)
Runtime
14m
Genres
Animation
Director
Hayao Miyazaki

Casting

Interesting facts

Boro the Caterpillar is a 2018 Japanese animated short film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki made for the Ghibli Museum. The story is about a recently hatched caterpillar named Boro as he takes his first steps into the world. It premiered at the museum on March 21, 2018.

Production

The origin of Boro the Caterpillar stemmed from sketches that Miyazaki had made in 1995. Miyazaki first brought up Boro as a potential idea for a movie, but Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki, concerned about the difficulty of making a feature-length film with no human characters, proposed creating Princess Mononoke instead.

Following the release of The Wind Rises in 2013, Miyazaki announced his retirement. However, sensing that Miyazaki still wanted to work on projects, Suzuki asked the retired director if he would be interested in creating a short film using his Boro the Caterpillar idea. In 2015, Miyazaki came out of retirement to work on a roughly ten-minute short film for exclusive screening at the Ghibli Museum.

While Miyazaki had previously incorporated computer-generated images into earlier, hand-drawn films like Spirited Away, Boro the Caterpillar was Miyazaki's first work to incorporate a CG animated main character. Suzuki encouraged the shift to CGI, believing the technical challenge might reignite Miyazaki's passion. Miyazaki himself stated that "I have ideas I may not be able to draw by hand, and [CGI] may be a way to do it—that's my hope.

Japanese television host and comedian Tamori provided all voices and sound effects for Boro the Caterpillar. The piano song at the end of the short film was performed by longtime Ghibli collaborator Joe Hisaishi.

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