FILMS
SPECIAL PROGRAM
Now is the time to talk about Kyoto Animation, to dig deep into the footsteps that Kyoto has printed into the history of anime culture
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.
Part One
The value of Kyoto Animation works
Part Two
The early days of anime - Kyoto as a nursery for talent
Part Three
How the period film culture changed Japanese anime
HISTORICA SPECIAL
Masayuki Suo's” Talking the Pictures” and silent film with a silent film narrator.
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!
『The Twilight Samurai』
Highly-acclaimed domestically and internationally! The emotional jidaigeki depicting the relationship of father and young daughter, and the love between a childhood friend
Director：Yoji Yamada
『CHAIN』
Shinsengumi vs Goryo Eji, a memoir of asasssinations: the Aburanokoji incident?
Let's hope the world's a better place in 100 years...
Director：Yoshiho Fukuoka
HISTORICA WORLD
The latest film set in history, selected from the world
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.
『Mosquito』
Reality and fantasy, past and present, fabrication and the everyday... An ultimate anti-war film awakening memories that fluctuate in between
Director：João Nuno Pinto
『Defiant Souls (Insumisa)』
Swiss surgeon challenges against the society and his destiny In Cuba where he visits in search for his lost son
Director：Fernando Pérez / Laura Cazador
『Felix Austria (Viddana)』
A reconstruction of the magical world of the 19th century in the present! An Austrian story of a strange sisterhood
Director：Christina Sivolap
『GWEN』
A folk horror depicting a series of eerie events that descend upon a young girl's family, set in the solemn nature
Director：William McGregor
HISTORICA FOCUS
Historical films introduced from a certain perspective. This year will be festive with two different themes!
Anime and violent Jidaigeki - the films that created genres which reached the world. With their original power that shows raw creativity.
Toei Douga Festival
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.
Lone Wolf and Cub Festival
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.
Venice International Film Festival
Japan Premier of Italian films from Biennale College Cinema
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
『Lessons of Love』
What is love, what is life, what is self...? The quiet struggles of man in solitude in a remote village
Director：Chiara Campara
Kyoto filmmakers lab screenings
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.
- Hosted by：Kyoto HISTORICA International Film Festival Committee
(Kyoto Prefectural Government, The Museum of Kyoto, Toei Company, Ltd. Kyoto Movie Studios, Shochiku Studio Co., Ltd., Toei Kyoto Studio Co., Ltd., Iwamoto Metal Co., Ltd., Directors Univ,inc., Ritsumeikan University, )
Co-hosted by：KYOTO CMEX Executive Committee
Sponsors：TESPAC Co., Ltd.／Mitsui Garden Hotel Kyoto Shijo／TOYOSU Co., Ltd.
With the Association of：Kyoto Crossmedia Promotion Agency／Italian Cultural Institute in Osaka／La Biennale di Venezia-Biennale College Cinema
Presented Under the auspices of：Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan, Inc.／Foreign Film Importer-Distributors Association of Japan／Motion Picture and Television Engineering Society of Japan Inc.
Supported by：Japan Arts Council
