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How to Keep a Mummy
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How How to Keep a Mummy actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
How to Keep a Mummy reads strongest on World Building, Spectacle and Bingeability.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The story
What it's about
When high school student Sora Kashiwagi finds himself staring down a mysterious oversized package sent to him by his self-proclaimed "adventurer" father, the last thing he expects is for it to be opened from the inside... by a little mummy so small it can fit in the palm of his hand!
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Yoko KogawaExecutive Producer
- Daigo MizoguchiExecutive Producer
- Tsutomu KasaiExecutive Producer
- Hideyuki SaidaExecutive Producer
- Atsushi NasudaProducer
- Tetsuo GenshouExecutive Producer
Writing
- Deko AkaoWriter
Direction
- KaoriDirector
Cinematography
- Kasumi TogoDirector of Photography
Music
- Kenichiro SuehiroOriginal Music Composer
- MAYUKOOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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