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With the newest (and as always, highly anticipated) feature-length film from Studio Ghibli – "The Wind Rises" (Kaze Tachinu) — scheduled for release in Japan in less than a month, we’ve been seeing the anime production company’s name a lot in the news recently. Well, it appears that fans of Ghibli animes based near Vancouver, Canada, now have reason to be extra happy.
Why? Because it’s going to be Ghibli Fest at The Cinematheque, the film society and cinema establishment located in Vancouver.
This isn’t the first time they’re presenting a program featuring Ghibli films at The Cinematheque. They actually put on a Ghibli retrospective showing 14 films in December of last year, which was so popular — a “positive sensation”, in fact, according to their website — that they’ve decided on a repeat performance.
This time, fans will be treated to showings of 16 Ghibli films, with two new additions from the program in December, namely "Ponyo" (Gake no Ue no Ponyo) and "From Up on Poppy Hill" (Kokuriko-zaka Kara). Fans will also be happy to learn that the program will again include rare screenings of the films "Only Yesterday" (Omoide Poro Poro) and "Ocean Waves" (Umi ga Kikoeru), which apparently have had very few screenings as well as never having been released in DVD in North America.
Of course, fans will be able to see popular Ghibli classics such as "My Neighbor Totoro" and "Castle in the Sky," so there should be something to suit every fan’s taste.
The Ghibli retrospective at The Cinematheque starts from Thursday and runs until early August. If you’re going to be in Vancouver and looking for something to do in the evening, this could definitely be an option, and in all honesty, I can think of many worse ways to spend two hours and the cost of movie admission than seeing a visually stunning quality anime film.
Source: The Cinematheque via MINKEI NEWS VANCOUVER
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Lowly
I wouldn't necessarily recommend that to travellers from jpn to Van, tho.
Ghibili is one of the few studios whose J-release dvds actually include both Eng subtitles and dubbing options, often not only English too, making them among the more watchable dvds for foreigners in jpn.
(why don't all dvds have Eng subs, grrrr)!!
yabits
A terrific little film. I actually saw it on Turner Classic Movies a few years ago, when they had a Ghibli festival. I've read somewhere that Disney won't distribute it outside of Japan because of material dealing with a girl's first period. What a pity.