AdventureComedyAnimation

Isle of Dogs

- Welcome to the Isle of Dogs.

In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.

Release Date : 2018-03-23

Language :EnglishJapanese

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Studio BabelsbergAmerican Empirical PicturesIndian PaintbrushScott Rudin Productions

Production Country : GermanyUnited States of America

Alternative Titles : 犬ヶ島 (Isle of Dogs)

Cast

Character Name : Chief (voice)

Original Name : Bryan Cranston

Gender : Male

Character Name : Atari Kobayashi (voice)

Original Name : Koyu Rankin

Gender : Male

Character Name : King (voice)

Original Name : Bob Balaban

Gender : Male

Character Name : Rex (voice)

Original Name : Edward Norton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Boss (voice)

Original Name : Bill Murray

Gender : Male

Character Name : Duke (voice)

Original Name : Jeff Goldblum

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mayor Kobayashi (voice)

Original Name : Kunichi Nomura

Gender : Male

Character Name : Scrap (voice)

Original Name : Fisher Stevens

Gender : Male

Character Name : Major Domo (voice)

Original Name : Akira Takayama

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tracy Walker (voice)

Original Name : Greta Gerwig

Gender : Female

Character Name : Head Surgeon (voice)

Original Name : 渡辺謙

Gender : Male

Character Name : Interpreter Nelson (voice)

Original Name : Frances McDormand

Gender : Female

Character Name : Editor Hiroshi (voice)

Original Name : 村上虹郎

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gondo (voice)

Original Name : Harvey Keitel

Gender : Male

Character Name : Spots (voice)

Original Name : Liev Schreiber

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nutmeg (voice)

Original Name : Scarlett Johansson

Gender : Female

Character Name : Oracle (voice)

Original Name : Tilda Swinton

Gender : Female

Character Name : Professor Watanabe (voice)

Original Name : Akira Ito

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jupiter (voice)

Original Name : F. Murray Abraham

Gender : Male

Character Name : Narrator (voice)

Original Name : Courtney B. Vance

Gender : Male

Character Name : Assistant-Scientist Yoko-ono (voice)

Original Name : Yoko Ono

Gender : Female

Character Name : Auntie (voice)

Original Name : 夏木マリ

Gender : Female

Character Name : News Anchor (voice)

Original Name : 野田洋次郎

Gender : Male

Character Name : Simul-Translate Machine (voice)

Original Name : Frank Wood

Gender : Male

Character Name : Igor (voice)

Original Name : Roman Coppola

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mute Poodle (voice)

Original Name : Anjelica Huston

Gender : Female

Character Name : Peppermint (voice)

Original Name : Kara Hayward

Gender : Female

Character Name : Taiko Drummer (voice)

Original Name : Satoshi Yamazaki

Gender : Male

Character Name : Taiko Drummer (voice)

Original Name : Gen Ueda

Gender : Male

Character Name : Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice)

Original Name : 松田龍平

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mission Control Drone Pilot (voice)

Original Name : Jun Takahashi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Owl (voice)

Original Name : Edward Bursch

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mission Control Technician (voice)

Original Name : Luli Shioi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mission Control Technician (voice)

Original Name : Erica Dorn

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mission Control Technician (voice)

Original Name : Chinami Narikawa

Gender : Male

Character Name : Aboriginal Dog (voice)

Original Name : Chris Benz

Gender : Male

Character Name : Aboriginal Dog (voice)

Original Name : Alex Orman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Aboriginal Dog (voice)

Original Name : J. Wurster

Gender : Male

Character Name : Junior-Interpreter Ernie (voice)

Original Name : Jake Ryan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Junior Scientist 1 (voice)

Original Name : 山田孝之

Gender : Male

Character Name : Junior Scientist 2 (voice)

Original Name : Kozue Akimoto

Gender : Female

Character Name : Junior Scientist 3 (voice)

Original Name : 松田翔太

Gender : Male

Character Name : Election Night Tabulator (voice)

Original Name : Kiyotaka Mizukoshi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Punk Girl (voice)

Original Name : 池田エライザ

Gender : Female

Character Name : Surgical Assistant (voice)

Original Name : Ryuhei Nakadai

Gender : Male

Character Name : Surgical Assistant (voice)

Original Name : Shin Mononobe

Gender : Male

Character Name : Daily Manifesto Student (voice)

Original Name : Ikunosuke

Gender : Male

Character Name : Daily Manifesto Student (voice)

Original Name : こだまたいち

Gender : Male

Character Name : Daily Manifesto Student (voice)

Original Name : Karin Okoso

Gender : Male

Reviews

Gimly

@Ruuz

2021-06-23

I was very fond of _Fantastic Mr. Fox_, Wes Anderson's first stop-motion animated faire. _Isle of Dogs_ less so. It's most certainly not a bad movie, but my expectations were pretty midling and, personally, they were not met. _Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2025-05-25

Now as someone with a bit of an hate/hate relationship with man’s best friend, the idea of rounding them all up and shoving them on an island where nobody needs to worry about abandoned bags of their crap littering the place up sounded quite appealing. “Atari”, however, doesn’t share my disdain for these smelly critters and so decides that he is going to try and track down his own mutt after it had been deposited onto the “Isle of Dogs”. He is the adopted son of the hereditary mayor “Kobayashi” of this Japanese community and so when his attempt to retrieve his long lost pal goes a bit awry, the authorities mobilise gadgets galore to try to return him to civilisation. Meantime he has fallen in with a disparate pack of hounds who are determined to help him find his erstwhile companion - and it’s soon a race against time before his dad plucks him back alone for some proper delousing. Of course, as he bonds with his new friends he discovers all about the deadly disease that was responsible for their incarceration in the first place and concluding that a vaccine might be in order, decides it is time to confront his old man and get these flea-ridden mongrels back marauding our streets again. This is quite possibly my favourite Wes Anderson film as it marries some quirkily effective animations with some solid characterisations and a really quite enjoyable story of curiosity, teamwork and loyalty. Along the way, there is plenty of detail from the surrounding imagery and plays on words and phrases to only thinly veil criticism of not just the not so subliminal concept of product placement itself, but of many of the products it places, too. The writing keeps the plot moving along entertainingly and though I usually don’t much like films that personify dogs (even Disney ones) this is a compact and frequently quite funny review of mankind’s attitudes to their pets. If only we put half this energy and dedication into looking out for each other! Good fun.