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San Francisco to Premiere Hunter x Hunter, Naruto, Library Wars Films
posted on by Egan Loo
The 2013 film on August 2 and 3.
Toshokan Sensō action novel series. The story is set in a future version of Japan. A law threatens to clamp down on freedom of expression in 2019, and Iku (Eikura) s the Library Defense Force, a military unit dedicated to protecting books from being confiscated. However, she finds that the job of her childhood dreams is harder than she bargained for, especially with her hard-nosed instructor Atsushi (Okada).
The festival will also host the U.S. premieres of:
film (August 3)
film (July 28)
film (July 28)
The anime slate also includes:
the San Francisco premiere of film (July 28)
the encore Tiger & Bunny the Movie: The Beginning (August 2)
The festival will screen the live-action film adaptations of:
Helter Skelter (San Francisco premiere, August 3)
Himizu (San Francisco premiere, August 4)
Rurouni Kenshin (San Francisco premiere, July 28 and August 1)
the science-fiction Space Battleship Yamato (West Coast premiere, August 4)
In addition, it will show:
Miwa Nishikawa's comedy Dreams for Sale (San Francisco premiere, July 27)
the How to Build a Mobile House documentary about architect Kyohei Sakaguchi (U.S. premiere, July 27)
Takashi Miike's new thriller Lesson of the Evil (U.S. premiere, July 27 & July 30)
the suspense film Platinum Data (U.S. premiere, August 1 and 3) with Kazunari Ninomiya (Gantz, Letters From Iwo Jima)
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