Programme Cardiff 2017

Masaaki Yuasa 2017 93m
(+10m intro)

A black haired girl walks around the streets of Kyoto at night. She is pursued by a male admirer who tries to catch her attention. As this rather one-sided romantic dance unfolds, they experience some surreal magical-realist moments.

Kenji Kamiyama 2017 110m PG

Days before the Tokyo Olympics, Kokone, a high school girl from Okayama, has strange dreams about warring machines that seem to be connected to her family in some secret way. All will be revealed as she travels between dreams and reality in order to rescue her father from government agents.

Tutor: Asuka Bochanski Tanaka
Duration: 1 hr 30 mins
Price: £20
Level: Beginners
Age: 12+

Due to popular demand, we have added an extra workshop for Beginners! Let’s draw your character! Learn how to draw your very own manga character with expert guidance from manga designer Asuka Bochanska Tanaka.

To book your place please visit:

https://goo.gl/forms/IfL1cc7zGHNw8hEh1

Or email Asuka directly on:

kropla.asuka@gmail.com.

Tutor: Asuka Bochanski Tanaka
Duration: 1 hr 30 mins
Price: £20
Level: Beginners
Age: 12+

Let’s draw your character! Learn how to draw your very own manga character with expert guidance from manga designer Asuka Bochanska Tanaka.

To book your place please visit:

https://goo.gl/forms/IfL1cc7zGHNw8hEh1

Or email Asuka directly on:

kropla.asuka@gmail.com.

Professor Yuicihi Ito 100m

Yuichi Ito is an award-winning animation director and a professor in the department of animation at Tokyo National University of Arts Graduate School. His work spans TV animation, commercials, and music videos. Following a presentation of his work, he will conduct a masterclass and will explain more about his creative process and different animation techniques from CGI to puppet animation. Also screening is work from his students at Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate Schools Film and New Media, Department of Animation.

Supported by The Japan Foundation.

KNYACKI!!

Selected Episode: Macaroni
Created: 2007
Duration: 5m

Broadcast since 1995, Knyacki is a children’s animation about the small adventures of a little mint-green caterpillar and his friends.

NORABBITS MINUTES

Selected Episodes: Piano (Ep2) & Art and Skating (Ep3)
Created: 2006
Duration: 3m

Bosom rabbit brothers Norabbits and Minutes are living in their underground apartment in the woods, in this cute, surreal, heart-warming premium short film.

You Are My Friend

Created: 2004
Duration: 5m

This is a music video for Mr Ken Hirai, a Japanese singer, released in May 2004. An animation depicting the strong friendship between a boy and a dragon.

YOKOHAMA TALE

Title: Chat – The White Sea Mew
Created: 2011
Duration: 1m

This is an animation planned for commemorating the century-old red brick warehouse in Yokohama, Japan.

Blue Eyes in HARBOR TALE

Created: 2014
Duration: 7m40s

This is a continuation of “HARBOR TALE”. In the scene of the port town “Y”, new picture representation mingles with a very strange drama. A little story begins with bisque doll that one day came out of the boathouse moored to the bank of the canal.

Doron Coron

2004 5m

The earth “Doron Coron” got life in a strange way. This is a story about his small adventures and miracles.

Candy.zip

Tomoki Misato 2017 4m30s

Aoko is confident about the documents she creates at work, but doesn’t get any positive feedback. Then, she witnesses her colleague secretly changing the documents she created. Aoko is turned into a piece of candy to keep her quiet…

Mind Room

Moe Kuribara 2017 4m11s

Little by little, something has gone wrong with a career woman’s personal life. But these little things are what fill the big hole in her heart.

I Think You’re A Little Confused

Iku Ogawa 2016 8m30s

One day a letter takes a blood-sausage to his friend, liver-sausage. So, he went…

Makoto Shinkai 2016 106m 12A

Mitsuha and Taki are two teens living parallel lives in different parts of Japan but their destinies are connected when they witness the first visible comet for a thousand years approach Japan and they begin to switch bodies. Fate unites them for a dark journey which lies ahead.

Shukou Murase 2017 115m 15

Following the detonation of a home-made nuclear device in Sarajevo, the collapse of the world system has happened amidst a series of genocides and it’s all linked to a mysterious American named John Paul. Intelligence agent Clavis Shepherd is tasked with tracking John Paul down and locating the true heart of darkness – a genocidal organ.

Eiichi Yamamoto 86m 1973, HD re-master 2016 18

Beautiful peasant woman Jeanne is ravaged by the local lord and in her distress she meets and makes a pact with the Devil. This is the start of a tale of sexual frenzy and misery in medieval France.

Naoko Yamada 2016 129m 12A

Elementary school kid Shoya targets the new transfer student Shoko because of her deafness. The class soon turn on him for his lack of compassion. Years later, Shoya is tormented by his past and so he decides he must see Shoko once more to atone for his sins.

Tutor: Asuka Bochanski Tanaka
Duration: 1 hr 30 mins
Price: £20
Level: Intermediate
Age: 12+

Let’s draw your character! Learn how to draw your very own manga character with expert guidance from manga designer Asuka Bochanska Tanaka.

To book your place please visit:

https://goo.gl/forms/IfL1cc7zGHNw8hEh1

Or email Asuka directly on:

kropla.asuka@gmail.com.

Production IG 80m

A selection of short films from leading Japanese anime studio Production IG.
Pigtails Yoshimi Itazu (28m)
Drawer Hobs Kazuchika Kise (24m)
Lil’ Spider Girl Toshihisa Kaiya (24m)
Kickheart Masaaki Yuasa (14m)

Tutor: Yukiko Ayres
Duration: 1hr 30m
Price: £20
Age: All Ages Welcome

Learn how to write in Japanese with expert tuition from Yukiko Ayres, who recently did a workshop at University of Cambridge. For booking please contact the festival via e-mail on info@kotatsufestival.com

Masaaki Yuasa 2004 103m 15

Nishi has a simple dream: to become a manga artist and marry his childhood sweetheart Myon but the path to true love is twisting. She has already been proposed to and, after fleeing from a couple of Yakuza, they end up trapped in the belly of a whale where they meet God.