Coco took inspiration from Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle.
Animation· 2017· Fantasy
Coco
by Lee Unkrich
Coco: it draws on 4 recorded sources.
What influenced Coco
The works this one is recorded as drawing on.
Lee Unkrich's team named Howl's Moving Castle with Spirited Away among Coco's Miyazaki influences.
Coco's makers named the action film John Wick among their influences, alongside Miyazaki.
Real-world influences
Events, places, movements and ideas outside fiction that this work is recorded as drawing on.
Culture
Real world
Real-world influenceHIGH
- Day of the Dead
Miguel crosses into the Land of the Dead on Día de Muertos, the Mexican festival of remembering the dead.