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Genius Party, Live-Action Grave of the Fireflies at NYC
posted on by Egan Loo
The New York-Tokyo organization has announced that it will be holding its annual film festival, which will open in New York City on September 28 this year. The planned film roster includes Tatsuyuki Tanaka. New York-Tokyo has not confirmed if it will show just one of the two Genius Party anthologies, or both anthologies with all 12 directors' works.
The festival will also hold the North American premiere of Taro Hyugaji's 2008 film version of Grave of the Fireflies. Nosaka wrote a semi-autobiographical work about surviving in Japan during and after World War II. The novel was already made into a 1988 animated film by director Studio Ghibli, as well as a live-action television special in 2005.
Another North American premiere at the festival, Wang Yemin's Tea Fight, features a story, cast, production staff that span the two countries of Japan and Taiwan. The story follows a Japanese family with an ancient "tea curse," as the daughter searches for a special tea in Taiwan that can reverse the curse. The opening of the film was animated by Studio 4°C (Tekkonkinkreet, Genius Party).
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