Thanks to Focus Features you may watch below a brand new trailer of Kubo and the Two Strings, the upcoming stop-motion animated movie directed by Travis Knight for Laika Studio:

KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGSPlot synopsis:
“An epic action-adventure set in a fantastical Japan from acclaimed animation studio LAIKA.
Kubo lives a quiet, normal life in a small shoreside village until a spirit from the past turns his life upside down by re-igniting an age-old vendetta. This causes all sorts of havoc as gods and monsters chase Kubo who, in order to survive, must locate a magical suit of armor once worn by his late father, a legendary Samurai warrior.”

There’s also a new series of posters:

(Click on a poster to enlarge.)

The people at Laika are really good at stop motion animation, aren’t they?

The voice cast includes Art Parkinson, Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey, George Takei, Rooney Mara, Ralph Fiennes, Brenda Vaccaro, and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.

The film will open in theaters on August 19, 2016.
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