The official website for the upcoming anime feature film adaptation of Takashi Imashiro's Ghost Cat Anzu ( Bakeneko Anzu-chan in Japan) manga confirmed today that the film will screen at the Directors’ Fortnight program in the 77th Cannes International Film Festival , set to be held from May 14 to 25, 2024. The "Directors' Fortnight" is a high-profile competition in which films that emphasize auteurism are selected, and is known as a gateway to success for world-class filmmakers, and it will be the film's world premiere screening ahead of its theatrical release in Japan on July 19, 2024. The film is co-produced by Japanese animation studio Shin-Ei Animation ( Doraemon ) and French studio Miyu Production, and is co-directed by Atsuhiro Yamashita — whose recent work is a live-action film adaptation of Yama Wayama's Karaoke Iko! comedy manga — and Yoko Kuno — who worked on the 2015 film The Case of Hana & Alice as rotoscope director. Yamashita posted his...
- 4/17/2024
- by Mikikazu Komatsu
- Crunchyroll
An anime feature film adaptation of Takashi Imashiro's Ghost Cat Anzu ( Bakeneko Anzu-chan in Japan) manga is set to release in Japan in July 2024. Japanese animation studio Shin-Ei Animation ( Doraemon ) and French studio Miyu Production co-work on anime production. The film's Japanese official website has opened, releasing a 30-second teaser trailer and two teaser visuals featuring its two main characters — 11-year-old human girl, Karin, and 37-year-old ghost cat, Anzu. The manga was serialized in Kodansha's children manga magazine Comic BomBom from its August 2006 to November 2007 issues, then compiled in one tankobon volume. The film's official website describes its story as: During a thunderous downpour. A monk at a temple finds a kitten mewling in a cardboard box. The kitten was named Anzu and was carefully brought up. Strangely, however, it did not die even after 10 or 20 years. After 30 years, it somehow became a 'ghost cat' that speaks human language and lives like a human.
- 2/22/2024
- by Mikikazu Komatsu
- Crunchyroll
To most viewers, director Nobuhiro Yamashita is known for his feature films as well as his works for Japanese television, but in the animated short “Lucky Owl With Shimako”, co-directed by Yoko Kuno, who previously worked on “Penguin Highway” or “The Case of Hana and Alice”, he delves into the art of animation. In the one-minute-short, he tells a story about the kind of encounters you can have in the city, along with the adventures you can experience.
Lucky Owl With Shimako is screening at Nippon Connection
At Ikebukuro station, four year-old Shimako is separated from her parents and is soon lost within the streets of the city. When she suddenly sees an owl statue, she engages in an adventure in the streets of Tokyo which not only makes her travel back in time, but also shows her the way to the apartment of a cartoonist, who once lived there.
Lucky Owl With Shimako is screening at Nippon Connection
At Ikebukuro station, four year-old Shimako is separated from her parents and is soon lost within the streets of the city. When she suddenly sees an owl statue, she engages in an adventure in the streets of Tokyo which not only makes her travel back in time, but also shows her the way to the apartment of a cartoonist, who once lived there.
- 6/7/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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