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British Cultural Organizations Hold Anime Events
posted on by Mikhail Koulikov
Three separate cultural organizations in London will be running anime-related events in the next two months. On Sunday, September 16, as part of its Premiere Japan 07 festival, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts will hold a screening of Akio Nishizawa, this film is an animated biography of Nitaro Akimoto, the blind musician who founded the Tsugaru style of playing the shamisen three-string guitar. Details about the screening can be found here.
On September 7, the British Museum will launch its "Late Night Manga to Anime" film series, held as part of a wider program entitled "Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan." The goal of this series is to introduce viewers to some of the most groundbreaking manga-inspired films of the medium. It will consist of screenings of Porco Rosso.
Finally, on October 24, Helen McCarthy and Leeds International Film Festival director Chris Fell. Additional information about this talk is available on The Japan Foundation website.
