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  • Programme Cardiff 2017

    Programme Cardiff 2017

    Summary Kotatsu Festival Cardiff 2017

    Fri 29th Sept 2017
    18:00 The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl

    Sat 30th Sept 2017
    11:00 Napping Princess
    11:00 Manga Drawing Workshop
    13:30 Manga Drawing Workshop
    13:30 Neo-Craft Animation Masterclass
    16:00 Your Name
    18:20 Genocidal Organ
    20:50 Belladonna of Sadness
    All Day Japanese Marketplace

    Sun 1st Oct 2017
    11:00 A Silent Voice
    13:00 Manga Drawing Workshop
    14:00 Pigtails, and Production IG Shorts
    15:00 Japanese Calligraphy Workshop
    16:30 Raffle Draw
    17:30 Mind Game

    For ticket information please contact Chapter Box Office on +44(0)29 2030 4400

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  • Raffle Aberystwyth 2017

    Raffle Aberystwyth 2017

    Here are the raffle prizes to be won at Kotatsu Aberystwyth 2017. Raffle tickets will be available at the Box Office on the day of the event.

    Star Prize

    Harbor Tale DVD Cover

    Harbor Tale DVD – Signed by Yuichi Ito

    Courtesy of I.TOON

    This animation makes full use of the “neo-craft animation” technique of combining stop-motion animation with CGI. In the port town of “Y” (modelled on Yokohama), a piece of red brick in a western-styled building has been looking down on the town for 100 years. One day it finally slipped away from the building.

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  • Raffle Cardiff 2017

    Raffle Cardiff 2017

    Below are the raffle prizes to be won at Kotatsu Cardiff. Raffle tickets are available at Super Tomato and Chapter Box office from beginning of September for 50p each.

    Star Prizes

    DVD Cover - Case Closed (Detective Conan) Signed Flyers

    Yuichi Ito Goods

    Courtesy of I.TOON

    Various goods and a book signed by Yuichi Ito. Yuichi Ito is an award-winning animator 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.

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  • Japan Day at Cardiff Central Library

    Japan Day Poster - English

    Cardiff Central Library will be hosting Japan Day to celebrate Japanese Culture and Literature on 27th May. Japan Day is organized in partnership with local Japanese community members.

    Lots of activities for all such as Calligraphy, Origami, Manga and Kimono Fashion Show, and much more.

    Please come and experience a taste of Japan!

  • Kotatsu Festival 2017

    Kotatsu Festival 2017

    We are happy to announce the dates for Kotatsu 2017! The Cardiff event will be held from 29th September to 1st October at Chapter. The date for Aberystwyth will be announced soon.

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  • Raffle Cardiff 2016

    Raffle Cardiff 2016

    Below are the raffle prizes to be won at Kotatsu Cardiff 2016. Raffle tickets are available at Super Tomato and Chapter Box office from beginning of September for 50p each.

    Star Prizes

    DVD Cover - Case Closed (Detective Conan) Signed Flyers

    Case Closed (Detective Conan) Signed Flyers

    Courtesy of Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation

    The latest flyer for the Case Closed, Detective Conan film ‘The Darkest Nightmare’, signed by anime producer Michihiko SUWA, who also produced City Hunter, Inuyasya, Black Jack, and Ace Attorney.

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  • Raffle Aberystwyth 2016

    Raffle Aberystwyth 2016

    Below are the raffle prizes to be won at Kotatsu Aberystwyth 2016. Raffle tickets will be available at the Box Office on the day of the event.

    Star Prize

    DVD Cover - Case Closed (Detective Conan) Signed Flyers

    Case Closed (Detective Conan) Signed Flyers

    Courtesy of Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation.

    The latest flyer for the Case Closed, Detective Conan film ‘The Darkest Nightmare’, signed by anime producer Michihiko SUWA, who also produced City Hunter, Inuyasya, Black Jack, and Ace Attorney.

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  • Programme Swansea 2016

    Programme Swansea 2016

    Tuesday 18th October

    19:30 Miss Hokusai

    Image from Miss Hokusai

    Set in 1814, Miss Hokusai focuses on O-Ei, the daughter of famed artist Tetsuzo, better known by his pen name Hokusai, as she tries to navigate the various aspects of her life. O-Ei spends the bulk of her time assisting her divorced father who cares about his art and not much else.

    Director: Keiichi Hara
    Duration: 98m (90 + 8)
    Released: 2015
    Rating: 12a

    For ticket information please contact Taliesin Arts Centre on +44(0)1792 602060

  • Programme Aberystwyth 2016

    Programme Aberystwyth 2016

    For ticket information please contact Aberystwyth Arts Centre on +44(0)1970 62 32 32

    Saturday 29th October

    10:50 Giovanni’s Island

    In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin Oblast… and on the unhealed border in this remote corner of the world, friendship among children from two different countries timidly blossomed, striving to overcome language barriers and the waves of history. Inspired by true events.

    Director: Mizuho Nishikubo
    Duration: 102m
    Released: 2014
    Rating: PG

    13:10 The Murder Case of Hana & Alice

    14 year-old Tetsuko (Alice) moves with her mother to a new town in what she calls “The Boonies” and must enrol as a transfer student in a new middle school. She immediately finds herself bullied due to being assigned the seat of “Judas” who is said to have been murdered over a year before. She is told that if anybody knows his fate it would be Hana, the recluse in the house next door, who has been unable to bring herself to attend class since “Judas” disappeared.

    Director: Shunji Iwai
    Duration: 110m
    Released: 2015
    Rating: PG

    15:20 Harmony

    In an utopian, futuristic world, where humanity has acquired eternal life, a young high ranked agent of the world’s leading health company investigates a wave of suicides.

    Director: Michael Arias, Takashi Nakamura
    Duration: 119m
    Released: 2015
    Rating: 12a

    17:45 Raffle Prize Draw

    Make sure you get your tickets in advance to be in with a chance of winning some great prizes. You may want to check out the raffle page to see what’s on offer.

    18:00 Psycho-Pass: The Movie

    In this science fiction crime film by Production I.G, Inspector Tsunemori is sent to a neighbouring war-torn nation, where the Sibyl System is being introduced as an experiment, to find Shinya Kogami, her former enforcer who went rogue three years ago.

    Directors: Katsuyuki Motohiro, Naoyoshi Shiotani
    Duration: 113m
    Released: 2015
    Rating: 15

  • Programme Cardiff 2016

    Programme Cardiff 2016

    Summary Kotatsu Festival Cardiff 2016

    Saturday 24th

    10.30 Miss Hokusai & Kitsune Tsuki
    12:50 The Murder Case of Hana & Alice
    13:30 Manga Drawing Workshop
    17:30 Live Music: Tsukumogami
    18:20 Genius Party + 4 Short Films
    20:50 Psycho-Pass: The Movie

    Sunday 25th

    11:00 The Anthem of the Heart
    13:30 Manga Drawing Workshop
    14:00 Raffle Prize Draw
    15:15 Harmony
    17:45 The Empire of Corpses

    For ticket information please contact
    Chapter Box Office on +44(0)29 2030 4400

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