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Okko's Inn Film Listed on BBFC Website
posted on by Andrew Osmond
Anime UK News reports that the website of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is listing the feature film Okko's Inn (Waka Okami wa Shōgakusei!). The film is listed on the website as a "PG" film; the format is given as "Cinema" and the distributor is listed as "Manga Entertainment". The English dub cast is named, and the "Main Language" is given as English. The release date is given as June 15. As of writing, none of these details have been confirmed by any other source.
GKIDS, which released Okko's Inn in America, streamed an English-subtitled trailer.
The film opened in Japan on September 2018.
The film is based on writer Hiroko Reijō and artist Asami's juvenile literature series. The books also inspired a 24-episode television anime that premiered on April 8 on TV Tokyo and five other affiliates. The film tells a story not told in either the original book series or the television series — specifically, a story about "Okko" and her parents. GKIDS described the film:
OKKO'S INN follows Okko, who goes to live with her grandmother in the countryside after losing her parents. While she prepares to become the inn's next caretaker, Okko discovers there are playful ghosts who live there. However, only she can see them.
DLE and Madhouse animated the film along with the television anime, but Kitaro Kousaka (A-Girl, Nasu: Summer in Andalusia) directed the film instead of the television anime's directors. Similarly, Reiko Yoshida (K-ON!, The Cat Returns, Girls und Panzer) wrote the script instead of the television staff. Kyōko Yauchi was in charge of art setting, and Shunsuke Hirota was the animation director.
Reijō launched the book series in 2003, and Kodansha's Aoi Tori Bunko imprint published 20 volumes with seven spinoff and short story collections. The book series has 3 million copies in print. Eiko Ōuchi serialized a manga adaptation in Kodansha's Nakayoshi magazine, and Kodansha published seven compiled book volumes.
