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CGV Blitz, Japan Foundation to Hold Japanese Film Festival in Jakarta

Indonesian cinema chain CGV Blitz announced on Wednesday that it will host The Japan Foundation Indonesia's Japanese Film Festival from November 26 to December 1 at the CGV Blitz Grand Indonesia in Jakarta.

Among other films, the film festival will show the Evangelion: 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo, Tamako Love Story, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, and Giovanni's Island anime films. The Indonesian Film Censorship Board previously registered all four films.

Evangelion: 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo is director Hideaki Anno's third in a series of four planned remake films of the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series. While the films feature the same characters, many details and aspects of the story are altered from the original series. While the first film hewed closely to the events of the original series, the second film went in a different direction, and the third film went still further in its own storyline.

The film festival will screen the film on November 28 and 29.

The film opened in Japan in November 2012, and earned more than 5.1 billion yen during its theater run.

The Tamako Love Story anime film is a sequel to Kyoto Animation's 2013 Tamako Market television anime series, and the staff of the series returned for the film. The film centers on Tamako Kitashirakawa, who is squaring herself with the fact that high school is ending, and all of her friends have big aspirations in life, while she has only decided to continue her work at her family restaurant. Meanwhile, Tamako's childhood friend Mochizō, who harbors feelings for Tamako, must find a way to confess his feelings for her before he leaves for Tokyo to go to university.

The film festival will screen the film on November 27 and 30.

The film opened in Japan in April 2014, and it earned 30 million yen on 24 screens in its first weekend.

Studio Ghibli and Isao Takahata's (Grave of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday) The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Kaguya-hime no Monogatari) anime film is based on the famous Japanese folktale Taketori Monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter), which centers on a princess named Kaguya who was discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant. In the film, her adoptive father uses his money to buy a land, title, and tutors for the girl to teach her to be a refined woman. She quickly earns many suitors due to her beauty, but she pines after her old life, and her sweetheart, Sutemaru.

The film festival will screen the film on November 27 and December 1.

The film topped the Japanese box office in its November 2013 release, selling 222,822 tickets to earn 284,252,550 yen (about US$2.8 million at the time) on 456 screens. The 87th Academy Awards nominated the film in the Best Animated Feature Film category.

Mizuho Nishikubo's Giovanni's Island (Giovanni no Shima) anime film tells the story of two brothers living on the island of Shikotan. Their family and the people of the island hear of Japan's loss in the war and are told not to worry. However, their island gets caught in the middle of the continuing conflict in the west and is invaded by Russian soldiers. The boys meet a western girl on the island named Tanya and the older of the brothers, despite their language barriers, cultural differences, and warnings from friends, starts to fall in love with her. The boys' father gets lured out by the army is and is captured and taken to Siberia. The brothers embark on a journey to see their father again.

The film festival will screen the film on November 28 and 29.

The film premiered in Japan in February 2014, and it won the Jury Distinction award at France's Annecy International Animation Film Festival in 2014. The film also received the Satoshi Kon Prize for Excellence in Animation and tied for the Audience Award at the 18th annual Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal in September, and it won the Jury Special Mention at the Nueva Mirada Film Festival in Buenos Aires.

Other films that the film festival will screen include A Samurai Chronicle, The Kirishima Thing, The Great Passage, The Complex, The Little House, The Pearls of the Stone Man, and Being Good.

[Via Kaori Nusantara]