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LA EigaFest to Host Live-Action Rurouni Kenshin & Director
posted on by Sarah Nelkin
LA EigaFest 2012, a Japanese film festival held in Los Angeles, revealed on Monday that it will host the North American premiere of the live-action Keishi Ōtomo will make an appearance at the film festival's red carpet and opening ceremony. The film festival is set to run from December 14 to December 16.
The festival will also feature Helter Skelter manga. The Floating Castle, Kirishima Thing, Rakugo Eiga, and many short films will round out the lineup.
The LA Eiga Fest debuted in 2011 with sponsorship from Los Angeles's Japan Film Society. This will be the festival's second year.
The original Rurouni Kenshin manga by Media Blasters released the anime.
Wolf Children is being screened at other film festivals around the world, and it release the film theatrically and on home video in North America next year.
Thermae Romae follows Lucius Modestus (Abe), an architect who designs bath-houses in ancient Rome. One day he is sucked into modern-day Japan via a bathhouse. Able to travel back and forth in between worlds, Lucius uses Japanese ideas to improve the Roman baths he builds in the past.
Source: animeanime.biz
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