Yamada’s follow-up, LIZ AND THE BLUE BIRD (2018), presents parallel stories in the form of a fairy tale about a lonely girl who becomes enamoured with a blue bird that takes human form a tale that’s subsequently turned into a musical piece performed by a school band. She later crosses paths with one of the bullies who, in turn, has been victimised and is racked with guilt and desperate for forgiveness. Thought-provoking, beautifully characterised work from emerging female voices screening in the season include Naoko Yamada’s intelligent and sensitive drama A SILENT VOICE (2016) about a high-school student experiencing hearing loss, who is bullied and forced to transfer to another school. The fantastic line-up of games that audiences will be able to try includes fighting games such as Tekken 7 and Dragonball FighterZ, co-op games like Taiko: Drum Master and Just Dance, and fan-favourites Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros.
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Ticket holders to screenings on 1 May will be given free admission to a day-long drop-in GamePad Event, featuring video games, cosplay and prizes. The talk will also highlight key themes from the season, including emerging female voices in the medium, while also foregrounding a few of the classic titles screening. On 31 March there will be a special event EXPLORING ANIME: PANEL DISCUSSION in which experts will explore what anime is, its history and origins, and how it’s viewed both within Japan and internationally. Many years later, graffiti-ridden, deserted and decaying, and illegally occupied by ‘the orphans of the bubble fall’, the city’s dangerous landscape is treated by its disaffected youth as their own assault course. On 20 April there will be a preview of BUBBLE (Tetsurô Araki, 2022) – after mysterious bubbles rain down, a huge explosion results in a massive dome enclosing Tokyo. Their stories were preserved by priests and Noh performers who shared them widely a couple of centuries later, Inu-oh befriends a blind musician and together they challenge prejudice and create contemporary, ground-breaking performances that shake up years of tradition. In 12th-century Japan, the Heike people lost their battle against fellow samurai clan the Genji and went into hiding. There will be a preview of INU-OH (Masaaki Yuasa, 2021) on 30 March, a thrillingly original film that boasts some astonishing sequences. The preview of this powerful theatrical short on 13 May will be followed by a Q&A with director loundraw. In SUMMER GHOST, a group of high-school students light fireworks in the hope of awaking the ghost of a young woman who has been sighted over several years each of the friends has a reason for being there, and on one night, the living and the dead are joined together. Previews of hotly anticipated new releases will include SUMMER GHOST (2021), the directorial debut of acclaimed designer-illustrator loundraw, who is tipped as ‘the one to watch’ in a new generation of anime filmmakers. The season offers audiences a chance to explore anime classics alongside work by contemporary auteurs and a small but increasingly important group of women working in anime who are helping bring the form into the 21 st century.
Featuring more than 40 features covers a wide variety of genres, telling contemporary, fantastical or other-worldly stories, many of which are uniquely Japanese. The season arrives, at long last, to entertain and delight anime fans and novices alike.
The two month season will take place at BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX in London. The BFI were set to release an hotly anticipated Anime Season, this month it will happen. 0 Shares Summer 2020 as we know nothing was opened as the pandemic kept us all inside.
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