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NEWS: Production I.G Confirms Miss Hokusai Anime Film is Licensed in N. America




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CaRoss



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 9:08 pm Reply with quote
Holy crap this sounds awesome. I love historically based films like this, and King's Speech, and The Wind Rises, where even if they play with the truth a bit they're still trying to build up interest in historical figures.

And this one sounds like it's choosing someone utterly fascinating to focus on. It doesn't hurt that the 19th century is one of my favourite periods of history to research either.

So, in other words, I'm definitely on board for this one and am truly excited that this has been licensed for distribution in North America. I'm definitely going to be checking it out!
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Angel M Cazares



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 10:08 pm Reply with quote
I am also happy that someone is (I assume) releasing this movie on BD in N.A. I recently watched this movie, and I absolutely loved it.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 10:42 pm Reply with quote
Great something to look forward to hopefully gets a DVD release as well have yet to see it but I bought Princess Kaguya sight unseen and loved it
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Xristophoros



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 2016 6:01 am Reply with quote
sounds like the same plot as the recent tim burton film, big eyes. it was not very good, but i am sure this anime feature will be far better executed.
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phia_one



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 2016 2:33 pm Reply with quote
This is good news since I really want to see this at some point.
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Lord Dcast



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 2016 8:04 pm Reply with quote
Wait a sec, back up; this STILL hasn't been shown in American theatres? What the hell America?! I saw it in Australia last year for god sake; what's taking you so long?

Can someone explain this?
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whiskeyii



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2016 12:36 am Reply with quote
Lord Dcast wrote:
Wait a sec, back up; this STILL hasn't been shown in American theatres? What the hell America?! I saw it in Australia last year for god sake; what's taking you so long?

Can someone explain this?


Well, you folks also got Urasawa's Monster, so who knows. Razz (I will never not be bitter about that.)
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Lord Dcast



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2016 1:06 am Reply with quote
whiskeyii wrote:
Lord Dcast wrote:
Wait a sec, back up; this STILL hasn't been shown in American theatres? What the hell America?! I saw it in Australia last year for god sake; what's taking you so long?

Can someone explain this?


Well, you folks also got Urasawa's Monster, so who knows. Razz (I will never not be bitter about that.)

I've got no clue. I feel for you man; we get this all the time with American shows.

It seems like America doesn't think there's a market for anime films. I've been to several films in the past year (Mrs Hokusai, Boy and the Beast, then re-release of Only Yesterday) and every time it was packed, particularly with this film. No idea why this is the case in America; don't you have a larger population?
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2016 8:49 pm Reply with quote
Lord Dcast wrote:

It seems like America doesn't think there's a market for anime films. I've been to several films in the past year (Mrs Hokusai, Boy and the Beast, then re-release of Only Yesterday) and every time it was packed, particularly with this film. No idea why this is the case in America; don't you have a larger population?


More dispersed too, so only in the big melting pot cities which can be hundreds of miles away for a lot of people (usually NY, LA, SF then everything else is a crap-shoot; if you're in the central plains you're pretty much SOL)
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manapear



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 06, 2016 9:12 pm Reply with quote
Yay! I've been wanting to see this, so I'm excited~. ♥
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AnimeAddict2014



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 12:38 pm Reply with quote
I saw the movie 1-2 months back.

i don't think they can sell a lot of copies here to be honest.
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omiya



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 2:26 pm Reply with quote
AnimeAddict2014 wrote:
I saw the movie 1-2 months back.

i don't think they can sell a lot of copies here to be honest.


Although I think that anyone who teaches Japanese art history would love to have a copy for reference.
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enurtsol



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 10, 2016 4:43 pm Reply with quote
AnimeAddict2014 wrote:

I saw the movie 1-2 months back.

i don't think they can sell a lot of copies here to be honest.


Not to anime fans, at least

Maybe to indie fans
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