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Otakon to Premiere Makoto Shinkai's Hoshi o Ou Kodomo
posted on by Egan Loo
The organizers of Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below (Hoshi o Ou Kodomo), in Baltimore. The screening will be in Japanese with no subtitles, but Shinkai will appear at a Q&A session afterwards.
The film centers on Asuna, a girl who spends her solitary days listening to the mysterious music emanating from the crystal radio she received from her father as a memento. However, she embarks on a journey of adventure to find a mysterious boy she just met, and thus comes to know the cruelty and beauty of the world, as well as loss.
The film is the latest 5 Centimeters Per Second. The new film opened in Japan on May 7.
Tenmon (5 Centimeters Per Second, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, Voices of a Distant Star) collaborated with Shinkai again on this project.
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