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Ghibliotheque Presents Millennium Actress, Your Name, Miss Hokusai Screenings in October and November (Updated)
posted on by Andrew Osmond
Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham, the co-hosts of the Ghibliotheque podcast, will introduce a cinema screening of Satoshi Kon's Millennium Actress in Lewes in October, followed by London screenings of Makoto Shinkai's your name. and Keiichi Hara's Miss Hokusai in November.
The screening of Satoshi Kon's 2001 film Millennium Actress, about two men who interview a retired Japanese actress and are drawn into her memories and films, will be on Wednesday October 19 at the Lewes Depot cinema at 6 pm (tickets).
The screening of Makoto Shinkai's 2016 film your name., about a Japanese boy and girl who begin to mysteriously swap bodies, will be on Wednesday November 2 at the Stratford Picture House cinema at 6.30 pm (tickets).
The screening of Keiichi Hara's 2015 film Miss Hokusai, about the life of the daughter of the artist Hokusai in nineteenth-century Tokyo, will be on Wednesday November 30 at Bromley Picture House at 6.30 pm (tickets).
The screenings are linked to Leader and Cunningham's new anime-related book, The Ghibliotheque Anime Movie Guide, which covers thirty non-Ghibli anime including Akira, Ghost in the Shell and your name.
The episodes of the Ghibliotheque podcast are available here. As well as covering films by and related to Ghibli, the podcast has also covered the anime of Satoshi Kon, the films of the Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon, and the stop-motion animation of Henry Selick.
Source: Ghibliotheque Twitter feed.
Update - Details of Millennium Actress screening in Lewes added.
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