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Anime Limited Releases Violet Evergarden: The Movie on July 1
posted on by Andrew Osmond
Anime Limited has announced that it will screen Kyoto Animation's Violet Evergarden: The Movie anime on one day on July 1 in UK and Ireland cinemas. Details of the screenings are available at VioletEvergardenFilm.co.uk.
The film opened in Japan in September 2020, and it ranked at #2 in its opening weekend. The film is the first new Japanese anime film (as opposed to compilation films) to open in Dolby Cinemas, with Dolby Cinemas screenings opening on November 13 last year. The film has sold 1,450,000 tickets for 2.1 billion yen (about US$20.2 million) as of January 14.
The film is the 2020 cinema sequel to the Violet Evergarden series, not to be confused with the 2019 side-story film Violet Evergarden I: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll. Anime Limited describes the film:
"Violet Evergarden, a former child soldier turned “Auto Memory Doll” scribe, has made a name for herself writing letters that evoke the feelings her clients cannot, in pursuit of understanding the meaning behind the “I love you” spoken to her long ago. When a terminally ill boy asks her to fulfill one last request for his family, Violet must confront her own feelings of love, loss, and her past with the one who told her those cherished words in order to write one final letter."
The movie won the animated film category at the Tokyo Anime Film Festival (TAAF) in February. The Japan Academy Film Prize Association for excellence in film nominated the film for Animation of the Year for its 44th annual awards this year.
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