Release in Japan: October 27, 2012
Created by: Shotaro Ishinomori
Director / Screenplay: Kenji Kamiyama
Music: Kenji Kawai
Character Design: Gato Aso
Animation Director: Daisuke Suzuki
Background Art: Yusuke Takeda
Animation: Production I.G / Sanzigen
official website (Japanese only):
http://www.ph9.jp/
© 2012 009 RE:CYBORG Production Committee
Release in Japan: June 2, 2012
Original Concept: Production I.G/CLAMP
Original Character Designer: CLAMP
Screenplay: Nanase Ohkawa (CLAMP), Junichi Fujisaku
Director: Naoyoshi Shiotani
Key Animation Supervisor: Kazuchika Kise
Music: Naoki Sato
Animation Production: Production I.G
Presented by: Project BLOOD-C Movie
official website (Japanese only):
http://www.blood-c-movie.jp
© 2012 Production I.G, CLAMP / Project BLOOD-C Movie
This week's Top Page is dedicated to Hiroyuki Okiura's second directorial effort A Letter to Momo, Best Feature Film winner at AniFest 2012.
A Letter to Momo won the Best Feature Film Prize at AniFest 2012. Check the details here.
A Letter to Momo is screening at the19th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film festival in Germany, and it's in the official selection at Annecy.
Check here our page dedicated to 009 RE:CYBORG, the forthcoming 3D feature film directed by Kenji Kamiyama.
This week's Top Page is dedicated to Hiroyuki Okiura's second directorial effort A Letter to Momo, awarded with the Platinum Grand Prize for Best Feature Film at the Future Film Festival 2012.
A Letter to Momo won the Platinum Grand Prize at the Future Film Festival 2012, in Italy. Check the details here.
A Letter to Momo is screening at the 28th Imagine: Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival, at the AniFest 2012 festival in Teplice, Czech Republic, and the19th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film festival in Germany.
This week's Top Page is dedicated to Hiroyuki Okiura's second directorial effort A Letter to Momo, awarded with the Grand Prize for Best Feature Film at the New York International Children's Film Festival.
A Letter to Momo won the Grand Prize at the NYICFF 2012. Check the details here.
A Letter to Momo is screening at the 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival, at the 14th Future Film Festival in Bologna, Italy, and at AniFest 2012 festival in Teplice, Czech Republic.
This week's Top Page is dedicated to Hiroyuki Okiura's highly anticipated second directorial effort A Letter to Momo, coming to Japanese theaters April 2012.
A Letter to Momo is screening at the NYICFF 2012. Check the details here.
A Letter to Momo is also screening at the 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival, at the 14th Future Film Festival in Bologna, Italy, and at AniFest 2012 festival in Teplice, Czech Republic.
This week's Top Page is dedicated to Hiroyuki Okiura's highly anticipated second directorial effort A Letter to Momo, coming to Japanese theaters April 2012.
We would like to thank all the people around the world who are supporting Production I.G, and wish all of you a peaceful and prosperous 2012!
This week's Top Page is dedicated to Hiroyuki Okiura's highly anticipated second directorial effort A Letter to Momo.
Read the second and last part of our interview with Ren Ishimori and Ryo Hirata, the two character designers of Oblivion Island here.
Kenji Kamiyama is working on a new feature film, 009 RE:CYBORG. Read the details here.
A Letter to Momo is screening in competition at Anilogue 2011. Check the details here.
A Letter to Momo is also screening at the Forum des images in Paris on December 4th. Check the details here.
A Letter to Momo is going to have its Middle East premiere at the 8th Dubai International Film Festival. Check the details here.
This week's Top Page is dedicated to Hiroyuki Okiura's highly anticipated second directorial effort A Letter to Momo, now screening in Poland, Spain, USA, UK and Korea.
Kenji Kamiyama is working on a new feature film, 009 RE:CYBORG. Read the details here.
A Letter to Momo is having its European premiere at the 27th Warsaw International Film Festival. Check the details here.
A Letter to Momo is also screening at four more festivals in October: USA premiere at the 31st Hawaii International Film Festival (see details here), Official Fantastic Competition at Sitges 2011 (see details here), UK premiere in competition at the Scotland Loves Animation Festival here), and Asian premiere at the 16th Busan International Film Festival here).
Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror has been selected in competition at the and at 6th anim'est International Animation Film Festival in Bucharest. Check the details here.
Kazuchika Kise's directorial debut Drawer Hobs is screening in competition at Sitges 2011, Read the details here.
This week's Top Page is dedicated to Hiroyuki Okiura's highly anticipated second directorial effort A Letter to Momo, having its world premiere at the 36th Toronto International Film Festival.
A Letter to Momo is screening in the official selection of Toronto 2011. Check the details here.
Shinsuke Sato's Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror was greeted with two awards at the 10th International Film Festival "Nueva Mirada" for Children and Youth in Buenos Aires. Read the details here.
Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror has also been selected in competition at the 7th World Animated Film Festival in Varna and at 6th anim'est International Animation Film Festival in Bucharest.
Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. - SSS 3D Optical Camouflage Camera app for iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad is now available worldwide through App Store. Check the details here.
Hiroyuki Okiura's highly anticipated second directorial effort, A Letter to Momo won the Best Feature Film Prize at the 11th AniFest (FFF 2012), held in Teplice, Czech Republic from April 26 to May 1, 2012. In the past editions, The Triplets of Belleville, Persepolis and In the Attic were awarded in the same category, but A Letter to Momo is the first Japanese feature film to be honoured with the prize.
The jury, composed of animation professionals from the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Syria, Portugal and USA, motivated the award as follows: "Solid direction, writing, pacing and a strong narrative core."
Established in 2002, AniFest is an ASIFA-recognized competitive festival of animated production for film professionals, artists and animation lovers that builds on the famous tradition of Czech animated film and offers a unique opportunity to become familiar with the best of contemporary world and Czech animation work. The festival attracts more than 20,000 people every year.
AniFest 2012 official website:
http://www.anifest.cz/2012/
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Based on the characters created by:
Shotaro Ishinomori
Director / Screenplay:
Kenji Kamiyama
Music:
Kenji Kawai
Character Design:
Gato Aso
Animation Director:
Daisuke Suzuki
Background Art:
Yusuke Takeda
Producer:
Tomohiko Ishii
Animation:
Production I.G and Sanzigen
Hiroyuki Okiura's highly anticipated second directorial effort, A Letter to Momo is one of the eighteen animated feature films invited for the official selection at the 36th Annecy Annecy Animation Film Festival, to be held in Annecy, France from June 4 to 9, 2012. This year the festival received 82 entries for its feature films category.
Founded in 1960, the Annecy Animation Film Festival is the world's biggest and oldest animation film festival.
Screening Schedule at Annecy 2012:
TBA
Annecy 2012 official website:
http://www.annecy.org/home/
© 2012 "A Letter to Momo" Film Partners
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Overview
Production I.G presents 009 RE:CYBORG, a mature and thought-provoking approach to Shotaro Ishinomori's classic manga, Cyborg 009 from the director of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. the world-acclaimed director of the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex series and Eden of the East. The movie, in stereoscopic 3D full CG animation, will open in Japan October 27, 2012.
Kenji Kamiyama himself is writing the script for the new film, that is going to be set in the present days. The main staff gathered around the project includes some of Japan's top creators who have already collaborated with Kamiyama in his previous works. Gato Aso (Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit) is in charge of character design duties, the score will be composed by Kenji Kawai (Eden of the East), while the background art will be by Yusuke Takeda (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit). The animation is produced in collaboration with Sanzigen, one of Japan's up-and-coming CG studios.
official website (Japanese only):
http://www.ph9.jp/
Main Staff
Based on the characters created by: Shotaro Ishinomori
Director / Screenplay: Kenji Kamiyama (Ghost in the Shell: SAC, Eden of the East)
Music: Kenji Kawai (Ghost in the Shell, The Sky Crawlers)
Character Design: Gato Aso (Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit)
Animation Director: Daisuke Suzuki
Background Art: Yusuke Takeda (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex)
Producer: Tomohiko Ishii (The Sky Crawlers, Eden of the East)
Animation: Production I.G (Ghost in the Shell) and Sanzigen (Towanoquon)
Story
Nine regular humans from different parts of the world are abducted and transformed into cyborgs with astounding powers for the purpose of being used as weapons. The nine cyborgs rebel and start to fight against their creators in the name of justice and world peace. Decades later, the nine cyborgs seem to be untouched by time, but they live in a world where "justice" has as many nuances as the people living on the planet. What is their place in the world now?
"In the beginning was the voice, and the word was him, and all men listened to his word in awe. But then men in vanity and arrogance started building towers whose top reached unto heaven, and accumulated great wealth on earth, and would not listen to his voice anymore. And so his voice descended upon earth like the roar of a great lion, and shattered their towers to dust..."
About Cyborg 009
009 RE:CYBORG is based on the Cyborg 009 characters created in 1964 by Japanese comic artist Shotaro Ishinomori. In the original comic, nine regular humans from different parts of the world are kidnapped by the evil Black Ghost organization, and transformed into cyborgs with great powers for the purpose of being used as weapons. The nine cyborgs rebel and start to fight against their creators, while struggling for their own self redemption. Ishinomori continued to write Cyborg 009 until 1985 in eight different story arcs. As the first superpowered hero team ever created in Japanese comics, Cyborg 009 proved to be a greatly influential forerunner for the generations to come, receiving three animated TV series and three movie adaptations, distributed in many countries of the world.
About Shotaro Ishinomori
Shotaro Ishinomori (1938 - 1998) is considered one of the most representative and influential Japanese comic artists. His opera omnia, encompassing an astoundingly broad variety of themes, includes 770 works collected into 500 volumes for a total of 128,000 pages, making him the Guinnes World Record-holder for the "most comics published by one author". He received the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, the Japan Cartoonists Association Award and the Minister of Education Award for his work. He also received the special Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize for his long lasting contributions to the manga medium.
About Kenji Kamiyama
Born in Saitama Prefecture on March 20, 1966. In 1985 he joined the background atelier Studio Fuga. A rare example of a background artist shifting to directorial roles, Kamiyama worked as animation director in Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999) and wrote the script for Blood: The Last Vampire (2000), then debuted as director in MiniPato (2002). International attention eventually arrived with the TV series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002, Excellence Prize winner, Japan Media Arts Festival 2002) and its second season, Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd Gig (2004), followed by the feature-length Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (2006, Jury Recommended Work at the 10th Japan Media Arts Festival, Jury Prize at the 21st Digital Content Grand Prix). In 2007, after almost 6 years spent in the world of Ghost in the Shell, Kamiyama directed the high-fantasy TV series Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit (Jury Recommended Work at the 11th Japan Media Arts Festival) followed in 2009 by Eden of the East (2009, Best TV Animation at the 14th Animation Kobe), Kamiyama's highly anticipated fully original TV series. In 2006 he 'acted' as a superlivemation digital puppet in Mamoru Oshii's Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters, in the role of Manager Kamiyama. 2011 has seen the theatrical release of the stereoscopic 3D version of his multiple award-winning Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society, of which Kamiyama personally supervised the 3D conversion.
© 2012 009 RE:CYBORG Production Committee
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Release in Japan: April 21, 2012
Format: 1 x 120'
Director/Screenplay/Storyboard: Hiroyuki Okiura
Key Animation Supervisor: Masashi Ando
Background Art: Hiroshi Ono
Music: Mina Kubota
Animation: Production I.G
official website (Japanese only):
http://momo-letter.jp/
© 2012 "A Letter to Momo" Film Partners
]]>Hiroyuki Okiura's highly anticipated second directorial effort, A Letter to Momo is one of the six movies nominated for the Black Tulip Award at Imagine: 26th Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival (Imagine 2012), to be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands from April 17 to 28, 2012. The screening at Imagine 2012 marks the movie's Dutch premiere.
An affiliated member of the European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation, in its previous editions the AFFF has awarded filmmakers such as Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs), Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira), David Cronemberg (eXistenZ) and Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away)
Screening schedule:
Date: April 21, 2012 (Sat)
Time: 15:50
Place: Kriterion 1
Date: April 23, 2012 (Mon)
Time: 17:50
Place: Kriterion 2
28th Imagina: AFFF official website:
http://www.imaginefilmfestival.nl/en
© 2012 "A Letter to Momo" Film Partners
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Original Concept:
Production I.G/CLAMP
Original Character Design:
CLAMP
Screenplay:
Nanase Ohkawa (CLAMP), Junichi Fujisaku
Director:
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Animation Character Designer:
Kazuchika Kise
Chief Animation Supervisor:
Kazuchika Kise
Animation Supervisors:
Takahiro Chiba, Toru Okubo, Miyuki Nakamura, Kanako Sasa, Takahiro Kagami
Color Designer:
Narumi Sakai
Art Director:
Kazuo Ogura (Kusanagi)
CG Director:
Hiroyuki Torii
Director of Photography:
Eiji Arai
Sound Director:
Yoshikazu Iwanami
Music:
Naoki Sato
Animation Production:
Production I.G
Saya:
Nana Mizuki
Fumito Nanahara:
Kenji Nojima
Hiroyuki Okiura's highly anticipated second directorial effort, A Letter to Momo is one of the eight movies selected in the AniMovie feature film competition at the 19th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film, to be held in Stuttgart, Germany from May 8 to 13, 2012. The screening in Stuttgart marks the movie's German premiere.
With audiences totalling 50,000, 1,450 accredited professional visitors and 500 films in its latest editions, the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film is one of the most important and largest event for animated film. Since its launch in 1982, the Festival has continued to support artistic animated film, young talented filmmakers and the animated film industry.
Screening schedule:
Date: May 11, 2012 (Fri)
Time: 17:00
Place: Metropol 1
Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film 2012 official website:
http://www.itfs.de/en/
© 2012 "A Letter to Momo" Film Partners
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Hiroyuki Okiura's highly anticipated second directorial effort, A Letter to Momo was greeted with the Platinum Grand Prize for the Best Feature Film at the 14th Future Film Festival, held in Bologna, Italy from March 27 to April 1, 2012.
A Letter to Momo competed, among the others, with Bibo Bergeron's A Monster in Paris, Makoto Shinkai's Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below, and Tomás Lunák's Alois Nebel.
The screening at the Future Film Festival marked the movie's Italian premiere.
The jury described A Letter to Momo as follows:
"A compelling coming-of-age story dealing with important themes such as loss and sense of guilt, but unconventionally elaborated through humour-filled and heart-moving narrative paths, and featuring a visually essential and meticulously accurate animation rendering."
The Future Film Festival is one of the most prominent international genre film festivals in Italy, showcasing the latest trends of digital technology and animation (whether 2D or 3D) in modern filmmaking.
Future Film Festival 2012 official website:
http://www.futurefilmfestival.org/
© 2012 "A Letter to Momo" Film Partners
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Hiroyuki Okiura's highly anticipated second directorial effort, A Letter to Momo won the Grand Prize for Best Feature Film at the New York International Children's Film Festival 2012, held in New York from March 2 to 25, 2012. The screening at NYICFF 2012 marked the movie's USA East Coast premiere.
NYICFF was founded in 1997 to promote intelligent, passionate, provocative cinematic works for ages 3-18 and to help define a more compelling film for kids. Since its launch, the event has grown to become the largest festival for children and teens in North America, with a paid audience of over 20,000 attending the most recent event. Since 2000, all screenings have sold out in advance.
"A Letter to Momo is a wonderfully expressive and beautifully hand drawn tale that combines bursts of whimsy and kinetic humor with deep felt emotion and drama. The animation is superb throughout, from the painstakingly rendered serenity of the island's Shinto shrines to the climactic finale - that is the best flight of supernatural fancy since Spirited Away." (NYICFF)
NYICFF 2012 official website:
http://www.gkids.com/
© 2012 "A Letter to Momo" Film Partners
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Hiroyuki Okiura's highly anticipated second directorial effort, A Letter to Momo is screening in the Feature Films Peace Category of the 4th Okinawa International Movie Festival (OIMF 2012), to be held in Ginowan and Naha, Japan from March 24 to 31, 2012.
Inspired by the theme, "Laugh & Peace" as universal words transcending all borders, every year the Okinawa International Movie Festival attracts more than 300,000 moviegoers and professionals on the beautiful island of Okinawa, Japan.
Screening Schedule:
Date: March 28, 2012 (Wed)
Time: 19:00
Place: Ginowan, Okinawa Convention Center, Theater 2
Date: March 29, 2012 (Thu)
Time: 16:00
Place: Ginowan, Okinawa Convention Center, Theater 1
OIMF 2012 official website:
http://www.oimf.jp/en/
© 2012 "A Letter to Momo" Film Partners
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Hiroyuki Okiura's highly anticipated second directorial effort, A Letter to Momo has been selected for the official programme, Animation Unlimited section at the 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF 2012), to be held in Hong Kong from March 21 to April 5, 2012.
HKIFF describes A Letter to Momo as "tremendously enjoyable and surprisingly realistic."
The Hong Kong International Film Festival is one of Asia's most reputable film events, screening over 330 titles and reaching an audience of over 600,000. The Festival draws extensive media coverage from over 560 global press members and continues to grow in vital importance as the premier platform to launch films to Asia.
Screening schedule:
Date: March 25, 2012 (Sun)
Time: 5:30 pm
Place: UA Cityplaza
Date: April 1, 2012 (Sun)
Time: 10:30 am
Place: Hong Kong Science Museum Lecture Hall
Both screenings are sold out.
HKIFF 2012 official website:
http://www.hkiff.org.hk/eng/
© 2012 "A Letter to Momo" Film Partners
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