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London BFI IMAX Cinema Will Show Two Mamoru Hosoda 4K Films on September 6
posted on by Andrew Osmond
Tickets are available for 4K screenings of two Mamoru Hosoda films on Saturday September 6 at London's BFI IMAX cinema near Waterloo station. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time will be shown at 12.30 p.m. (tickets) and Summer Wars will be shown at 3 p.m. (tickets)
Both screenings will be subtitled, and will be introduced by the hosts of the Ghibliotheque podcast, Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham.
Summer Wars will also be screened in UK cinemas on August 3 and 5, and Mamoru Hosoda's film Wolf Children will also be screened in UK cinemas on August 17 and 19.
Funimation has previously described The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, pictured above right.
"After waking up late, flunking her pop quiz, embarrassing herself on numerous occasions, and starting a fire in her home economics class, high school student Makoto Konno figures she's just having one of those days. And just when she thinks she's made it through, the brakes on her bike malfunction putting her on a collision course with a speeding train. The life-ending accident would have been the perfect end to the worst day ever, but the strangest thing happens—she leaps backwards in time."
Hosoda and Madhouse Studios' film based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1967 novel opened in Japan in 2006.
Funimation also previously described Summer Wars, pictured left:
"Kenji is your typical teenage misfit. He's good at math, bad with girls, and spends most of his time hanging out in the all-powerful, online community known as OZ. His second life is the only life he has - until the girl of his dreams, Natsuki, hijacks him for a starring role as a fake fiance at her family reunion. Things only get stranger from there. A late-night email containing a cryptic mathematic riddle leads to the unleashing of a rogue AI intent on using the virtual word of OZ to destroy the real world, literally. As Armageddon looms on the horizon, Kenji and his new "family" set aside their differences and band together to save the worlds they inhabit."
Hosoda and Madhouse Studios' original movie opened in Japan in July 2009.
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