Film opens in Japan on July 19
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The official web site for Ghost Cat Anzu, Shinei Animation and France’s Miyu Productions‘ 2D-animated movie based mostly on Takashi Imashiro‘s Bakeneko Anzu-chan manga, introduced on Tuesday that the movie will display screen throughout the Directors’ Fortnight on the 77th Cannes International Film Festival. The annual movie pageant takes place in France from May 14 to May 25.
The movie will display screen together with one other Japanese movie, Desert of Namibia.
The Directors’ Fortnight is an unbiased movie choice that runs parallel to Cannes, which differs from the official choice on account of its comparatively non-competitive nature. This 12 months the choice will host a People’s Choice Award.
The movie opens in Japan on July 19.
The movie screened as a work-in-progress on the Annecy Animation Festival in June 2023. The Paris-based CHARADES firm is dealing with worldwide gross sales. GKIDS has acquired the North American rights to the movie.
Yōko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita are directing the movie and Shinji Imaoka is writing its script. Ghost Cat Anzu marks the administrators’ debut at Cannes. The movie is 90 minutes lengthy and makes use of combined animation strategies combining 2D digital animation with rotoscoping
Miyu Productions describes the movie’s story:
Karin, 11 years old, is deserted by her father at her grandfather’s home, the monk of a small city within the Japanese countryside. Her grandfather asks Anzu, his jovial and useful though slightly capricious ghost cat, to take care of her. The assembly of their robust characters causes sparks, no less than initially…
Kodansha printed the one-volume Bakeneko Anzu-chan manga in 2007.
Shinei Animation is finest recognized for producing Doraemon and Crayon Shin-chan, two long-running tv anime that each constantly rank among the many highest weekly rankings for animated packages in Japan. Daikichirō Kusube based the studio in 1976.
Sources: Ghost Cat Anzu movie’s web site, Variety (Elsa Keslassy), Eiga Natalie
