Programme Cardiff 2021

Yumiko Jones from Bristol Japanese Cultural Society, with an introduction to Japanese traditional and modern culture, with a demonstration of kimono and yukata dressing technique. Alongside a mannequin display, the attendees will actually be professionally dressed in a summer yukata.

Host: Yumiko Jones

Free admission

Place: Canton Library Library St, Cardiff CF5 1QD

Booking Required

For booking please visit

Eventbrite at cardifflibrariesevents.eventbrite.co.uk or email libraryevents@cardiff.gov.uk.

In Full Bloom

Short film will be shown before the main feature.

The animation frames recombine all pictures from innumerable parts which I cut out from my late grandmother’s oil paintings, separating into every colour and touch, and designed by interweaving analogue and digital work.

The relationship between the cat kept inside the house and the wild bird gives a universal realization to the cat. While the cat doesn’t understand where the bird disappeared to, it brings ‘a death’ to the room.

‘The outside’ which the room welcomed, entangles the cat’s thoughts towards the bird, then lets a bird flap its wings in another world.

Miho Takahashi

Miho Takahashi
4m 30s / 2021 / U / F-Rated

Andrew Osmond

British journalist and author specialising in anime and fantasy media. He writes for publications including NEO magazine, the AllTheAnime blog, SFX and Sight & Sound. He has also written books including 100 Animated Feature Films, Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist and BFI Film Classics: Spirited Away.

Ryota Fujitsu

Born in 1968. After working as an anime critic, newspaper journalist, weekly magazine editor, he became a free-lance writer. Writes a lot for websites and anime magazines. He wrote books Anime and War (NIPPON HYORON SHA CO.,LTD.), 13 Professionals Talk My Voice Actor Way (Kawade Shobo Shinsha), The Reason Why We Watch Anime (film art company).

Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi

Works as film critic and journalist who covers stories about culture and sustainability. With a degree in Political Sciences, a Master’s in Screenwriting & Film Production, and studies at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, Chiara has been working in the press since 2003. Italian by blood, British by upbringing, fond of Japanese culture since the age of 7, once a New Yorker always a New Yorker, and an avid traveller, Chiara collaborates with international magazines and radio-television networks. She is also a visual artist, whose eco-works connect to her use of language, and is a Professor of Phenomenology of Contemporary Arts at Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan.