The 2012 Waterloo Festival of Animated Cinema added another anime film to its schedule lineup. The festival will show Kônosuke Uda‘s Rainbow Fireflies (Niji-Iro Hotaru – Eien no Natsu Yasumi) feature along with the previously announced Asura, Blood-c: The Last Dark, A Letter to Momo, Wolf Children films and the Anime Mirai shorts.
Based on Masayuki Kawaguchi‘s 2007 novel, Rainbow Fireflies follows a sixth-grade boy named Yūta, voiced by Akashi Takei, on his summer vacation. His father passed away one year ago in a traffic accident, and Yūta now goes alone to visit a place where he and his father once shared memories. The two had gone often to an unused dam deep in the mountains to collect the rhinoceros beetles nearby. Yūta suddenly receives a shock in a thunderstorm, loses his footing, and gets knocked out. When he wakes up, he see a small girl and a village – except this...
Based on Masayuki Kawaguchi‘s 2007 novel, Rainbow Fireflies follows a sixth-grade boy named Yūta, voiced by Akashi Takei, on his summer vacation. His father passed away one year ago in a traffic accident, and Yūta now goes alone to visit a place where he and his father once shared memories. The two had gone often to an unused dam deep in the mountains to collect the rhinoceros beetles nearby. Yūta suddenly receives a shock in a thunderstorm, loses his footing, and gets knocked out. When he wakes up, he see a small girl and a village – except this...
- 11/5/2012
- by Vesna Sunrider
- Filmofilia
Oh boy, Japanese film makers sometimes really choose weird source material for their live-action adaptations. Ballad: Namonaki Koi no Uta is based on an animated (and awarded) Crayon Shin-chan movie from 2002 that has been put in a more serious shell for this adaptation.
The film tells the story of a young princess (Yui Aragaki) who constantly rejects the arranged marriage with a ruler of a neighboring state and thus brings the states to the brink of war. Smap member Tsuyoshi Kusanagi (yes, the one who got arrested for some drunk Eden of the East cosplaying back in April) plays a soldier who wants to win the princess’ heart. To make things even more complicated the couple to-be gets visited by Shinichi (Akashi Takei), a young boy from the future…
[See post to watch Flash video] Director Takashi Yamazaki’s Ballad: Namonaki Koi no Uta will open in Japan on September 5th 2009.
[via Nippon Cinema]...
The film tells the story of a young princess (Yui Aragaki) who constantly rejects the arranged marriage with a ruler of a neighboring state and thus brings the states to the brink of war. Smap member Tsuyoshi Kusanagi (yes, the one who got arrested for some drunk Eden of the East cosplaying back in April) plays a soldier who wants to win the princess’ heart. To make things even more complicated the couple to-be gets visited by Shinichi (Akashi Takei), a young boy from the future…
[See post to watch Flash video] Director Takashi Yamazaki’s Ballad: Namonaki Koi no Uta will open in Japan on September 5th 2009.
[via Nippon Cinema]...
- 8/11/2009
- by Ulrik
- Affenheimtheater
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