We will introduce in three parts, the footsteps of the Kenzo Masaoka sect from the early days of anime, the directors of Toei Studios Kyoto who cause a ripple in anime expressions during the post-war growth, and Kyoto Animation beloved by fans from all over the world.
A special preview of Masayuki Suo's new year film, depicting the young days of a "katsuben" (silent film narrator) who changes film experiences into reality and colour. A digitally revived Gion of the early Showa period and hit Gion musical, with a katsuben!
Highly-acclaimed domestically and internationally! The emotional jidaigeki depicting the relationship of father and young daughter, and the love between a childhood friend
Shinsengumi vs Goryo Eji, a memoir of asasssinations: the Aburanokoji incident?
Let's hope the world's a better place in 100 years...
Films with narrative energy that overcome borders and cultures have been selected from the world's latest period films. Stories of people and cultures, messages unable to tell in the present left to history's hands, and modernised traditional stories.
Reality and fantasy, past and present, fabrication and the everyday... An ultimate anti-war film awakening memories that fluctuate in between
Swiss surgeon challenges against the society and his destiny In Cuba where he visits in search for his lost son
A reconstruction of the magical world of the 19th century in the present! An Austrian story of a strange sisterhood
A folk horror depicting a series of eerie events that descend upon a young girl's family, set in the solemn nature
Anime and violent Jidaigeki - the films that created genres which reached the world. With their original power that shows raw creativity.
The "Natsuzora" days of animation
Anime - the leading the video industry of Japan. Every revived technique leads us back to Toei Douga. Enjoy this year's newly revived works from anime's days of youth with their witnesses.
Imagine the possibilities of Jidaigeki from graphic novels
The ultimate one and only series that miraculously brought together Tomisaburo Wakayama and his exceptional physical abilities, Kazuo Koike who brought innovation to the graphic novel industry with his characters and violence, and the extraordinary visualist Kenji Misumi.
A special programme organized in collaboration with “Kyoto Filmmakers Lab”, the Biennale College Cinema (a project developed by the Cinema department of La Biennale di Venezia), and the Italian Cultural Institute in Osaka.
With the association of Italian Cultural Institute in Osaka
What is love, what is life, what is self...? The quiet struggles of man in solitude in a remote village
A special program organized in collaboration with KFL which Selected young filmmakers from all over the world experience period film making in Toei and Shochiku’s studios.