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Film shows in N. American theaters on November 15
GKIDS began streaming an English-subtitled trailer for Shinei Animation and France’s Miyu Productions‘ Ghost Cat Anzu 2D-bright movie on Wednesday. The movie will camouflage in North American theaters on November 15.
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The movie opened in Japan on July 19.
The movie stars:
- Mirai Moriyama as titular Anzu
- Noa Gotō voices Karin
- Munetaka Aoki as Tetsuya, Karin’s father
- Miwako Ichikawa as Yuzuki, Karin’s mother
- Moonriders‘ member Keiichi Suzuki as Oshō, Anzu’s foster father or mother
- Shingo Mizusawa as the god of poverty
- Skirt (Sawabe Wataru) as Tanuki, one other supernatural creature
- Ikue Ōtani as Pi-Pi-chan, the wooded space fairies
Mutsuo Yoshioka and Shōhei Uno additionally make contributions voices.
Solid individuals additionally acted as the characters in photography that served as a reference for animating the characters, with their spoken lines during the filming of their actions additionally being ancient in the movie.
Yōko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita directed the movie, and Shinji Imaoka wrote its script. The movie is 90 minutes long and makes use of blended animation tactics combining 2D digital animation with rotoscopy. Yōko Kuno used to be the persona clothier, Julien De Man used to be the art director and coloration key artist, Namiko Ishidate and Yukie Nakauchi were the animation directors, and Keiichi Suzuki aloof the tune.
Chiaki Satō (A.S.A.B) performs the theme tune “Matatabi.”
The movie screened as a work-in-development on the Annecy Animation Competition in June 2023. The Paris-primarily based exclusively CHARADES company will style out worldwide gross sales. GKIDS has got the North American rights to the movie.
Miyu Productions describes the movie’s story:
Karin, 11 years outmoded, is deserted by her father at her grandfather’s residence, the monk of a little town in the Eastern nation-negate. Her grandfather asks Anzu, his jovial and precious even though reasonably capricious ghost cat, to seem at after her. The meeting of their solid characters causes sparks, now now not lower than first and main…
Kodansha printed the one-volume Bakeneko Anzu-chan manga in 2007.
Source: GKIDS‘ YouTube channel
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