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Japan Society in NY to Screen Anime Shorts by Koji Yamamura, Shuhei Morita

posted on by Rachel Mahoney
Obake Family Day featuring crafts, photo booth, haunted house to be held on November 2

The Japan Society in New York City will host a screening of scary anime shorts at the Obake Family Day event on November 2 at the Japan Society Gallery.

The shorts will run from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will feature works by Oscar-nominated animators Koji Yamamura (Muybridge's Strings, Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor) and Shuhei Morita (Tokyo Ghoul, Tsukumo), as well as students from the Tokyo University of the Arts who studied under Yamamura.

The Japan Society describes the shorts as follows:

Spirit of the Night (7 min.)
Directed by Hiroko Satsuma: A ghost visits a boy while he tries to sleep, leading him on a strange and wonderful journey.

Fox Spirit (3 min.)
Directed by Hitomi Nakamura: Fox spirits have overtaken Japan! Where are they all going?

The Elevator (8 min.)
Directed by Koji Yamamura: A trip down the elevator unexpectedly takes a young boy into a forest deep underground filled with goblins and singing birds.

Kakurenbo (25 min.)
Directed by Shuhei Morita: A group of kids wearing masks decide to play hide and seek in the ruins of an abandoned city. One by one they start to disappear as demons are awakened.

Central Park Media previously released Kakurenbo on home video in 2005.

Obake Family Day will also feature a photo booth, haunted house, crafts, storytelling sessions, and guests will be able to view the Japan Society's Garden of Unearthly Delights exhibition throughout the day.

Advanced tickets to the event are US$12 for adults, US$10 for Japan Society members, and US$6 for kids and US$5 for Japan Society members. Day of tickets will cost US$15 for adults and US$12 for Japan Society members, and US$8 for kids and US$6 for Japan Society members.


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