8th Japanese Animation Night

From sunset to sunrise with breakfast in the courtyard of the world's oldest cinema!

Programme:

Summer Wars
By Mamoru Hosoda
Japanese anime. 2010 res. 2025 – 1h54 original Japanese version with French subtitles
Voices of Mitsuki Tanimura, Sumiko Fuji, Ayumu Saitô
Competition, Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2010. Kenji, a shy student with a passion for mathematics, is drawn into a family lie by his classmate Natsuki: he must pretend to be her boyfriend at a clan reunion. When he accidentally hacks into Oz, a global virtual social network, he triggers a cyber crisis that threatens the planet. Beyond the intelligence of its message and the excellent suspense of the plot, Summer Wars benefits from exemplary and euphoric direction.

Castle in the Sky
By Hayao Miyazaki
Japanese anime. 1986 – 2h04 original Japanese version with French subtitles
Voices of Mayumi Tanaka, Hiroshi Ito
Held captive aboard an airship, Sheeta faces a band of air pirates led by the colourful Dora. Fantastic, inventive and unexpected, Miyazaki's universe never ceases to surprise us. This opus, which predates My Neighbour Totoro and computer-generated special effects, never fails to amaze.

Paprika
By Satoshi Kon
Japanese anime. 2006, 2025 – 1 hour 30 minutes, original Japanese version with French subtitles
Voices: Megumi Hayashibara, Torû Furuya, Kôichi Yamadera
Competition, Venice Film Festival 2006. In the future, a new psychotherapeutic treatment called PT has been invented. Thanks to a machine called the DC Mini, it is possible to enter patients' dreams and record them in order to probe the depths of their thoughts and unconscious minds. A hallucinatory fresco, haunted by Kafka, Gilliam and Lynch, whose beauty cannot be fully appreciated in a single viewing.

Blue Giant
By Yuzuru Tachikawa
Anime, musical Jap. 2024 – 2 hours Japanese original version with French subtitles
Voices of Yûki Yamada, Shôtarô Mamiya, Amane Okayama
Screenings Events, Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2023. Dai Miyamoto's life changes when he discovers jazz. He takes up the saxophone and practises every day. Playing with passion, concert after concert, the trio he has formed gets closer to their goal: to perform at So Blue, Japan's most famous jazz club, with the hope of changing the world of jazz forever. This original film gives the impression of seeing the music and experiencing it at the same time as the artists.

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