Figure 1: Kubo and The Two Strings This film review will focus on the film 'Kubo and The Two Strings' (2016) , this tale follows the story of a young boy known as Kubo. With no explanation, we see him with a magic shamisen that can control origami, a lucid/ill mother and an missing eye. He embarks on a journey to discover the full potential of his power, as well as avenge what his grandfather the moon king had taken from him and exact his revenge on the family that made him, but also broke him. The film was released in 2016, was directed by Travis Knight and was also produced by Travis Knight, as well as Arianne Sutner. The story was written by Shannon Tindle and Marc Haimes, Dario Marianelli composed the music and the animation was done by Laika. Laika is known for doing stop motion animations, they have previously worked on 'Coraline' (2009) , 'Boxtrolls' (2014) and 'Paranorman' (2012) , all generally well received films, but Kubo is one of th...