Kotatsu Japanese Animation Film Festival unveils line-up, opens ticket sales

Kotatsu Japanese Animation Film Festival unveils line-up, opens ticket sales

0 comments 📅29 August 2018, 11:49

Tickets are now on sale for the 2018 edition of Wales’ Kotatsu Japanese Animation Film Festival, which takes place at Cardiff’s Chapter Arts Centre on 28–30 September before moving to Aberystwyth Arts Centre on 20–21 October.

Screenings at this year’s festival include Mari Okada’s acclaimed directorial debut Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms, Masaaki Yuasa’s mermaid fantasy Lu Over the Wall, compilation film Attack on Titan: The Roar of Awakening and a triple bill from director Hiromasa Yonebayashi – Studio Ghibli movies Arrietty and When Marnie Was There and Studio Ponoc’s first feature, the recently-released Mary and the Witch’s Flower.

Other films showing at Kotatsu include romantic drama Fireworks, Yoshiaki Kawajiri horror flick Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Sunrise sci-fi tale Psychic School Wars, WWII propaganda piece Momotaro: Sacred Sailors and the live-action Tokyo Ghoul movie. The festival will also be hosting workshops with award-winning stop-motion animators Tsuneo Gōda (creator of NHK’s Domo-kun) and Hirokazu Minegishi (Komaneko: The Curious Cat).

The full programme for the Kotatsu Japanese Animation Film Festival can be found here.

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