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Shinichiro Watanabe Directs 'A Girl Meets a Boy and a Robot' Animated Short for Chinese Anthology TAISU
posted on by Alex Mateo
Montreal's 26th A Girl Meets a Boy and a Robot" on July 23. The short is part of the Chinese animation anthology project TAISU, which tells four interlinked animated science-fiction stories by directors from Japan, China, and New Zealand. (Note: The Fantasia International Film Festival's website lists the U.S. instead of New Zealand.)
A promotional video for the project is streaming:
The festival describes the short:
A girl without memory wanders the ruined wastes of the world that once was, where the remnants of automated technology blindly continue to function despite their human masters being (almost) all gone. She comes across a friendly but likewise amnesiac robot, and the two travel into the city, where they meet a brave youth living a feral existence. He seeks the Crystal of Time, to connect with the forgotten past, but unbeknownst to all the forlorn trio, the truth is right there among them.
Watanabe directed such notable anime productions as Cowboy Bebop, Blade Runner: Black Out 2022" anime short.
The event will Heike Monogatari: INU-OH no Maki (Tales of the Heike: Inu-Oh) novel.
The event will also screen the North American premieres of The Mole Song: Final — Mizuki Tsujimura's Anime Supremacy! (Haken Anime!) novel.
This year's festival will be held from July 14 to August 3.
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