Inu-Oh, Don Glees, Hula Fulla Dance & Other Anime To Screen At 34th Tokyo International Film Festival

The Japanese Animation part of thirty fourth Tokyo Worldwide Movie Competition (TIFF) will display screen the premieres of Masaaki Yuasa’s INU-OH, the world premiere of Atsuko Ishizuka’s Goodbye, Don Glees!, Seiji Mizushima’s Hula Fulla Dance, and Ayumu Watanabe’s Fortune Favors Woman Nikuko.

The information was revealed in a press convention held on Tuesday, one of many first held, associated to this 12 months’s competition.

The theme of this 12 months’s Japanese animation part is “Seeing 2021 By the Most important Character.”

Josee, The Tiger and the Fish and In search of Magical DoReMi had been among the many anime movies that had been screened final 12 months on the thirty third TIFF.

This 12 months’s competition can be held from October 30 to November 8 with a mixture of bodily and on-line screenings. Hiroyasu Ando, the president of the competition, stated that they might be monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic and the worldwide well being state of affairs in a bid to carry a profitable occasion.

“I consider that cinema is an artwork type that displays all of us as we take care of struggles and one which additionally provides us the braveness to beat such challenges. We’ll proceed to exert our utmost efforts in order that we are able to contribute to the combat in opposition to COVID-19 via the medium of cinema,” Ando stated on the convention.

The competition can even have fun the fiftieth anniversary of the Kamen Rider franchise.

The films that can be screened at TIFF as part of this embody Kamen Rider Double the Film Perpetually A to Z / The Gaia Recollections of Destiny, Masked Rider vs. Shocker, Masked Rider vs. The Ambassador from Hell, Masked Rider V3 vs. Destron, Masked Rider BLACK Hurry to Onigashima, and Masked Rider Decade the Film: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker.

Moreover, a documentary on animator Yasuo Otsuka can even be performed at TIFF. Otsuka handed away earlier this 12 months and the documentary will play as part of the retrospective on Otsuka together with Isao Takahata’s Chie the Brat: Downtown Story and Yūgo Serikawa’s The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon.

Supply: ANN, Arab Information