The Girl Who Leapt Through Time picks up another award

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (a.k.a Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo) recently won the Special Distinction prize at the 31st Annecy International Animated Film Festival (a prestigious French awards ceremony that celebrates the best in animated film).

Directed by Mamoru Hosoda and animated by Madhouse Studios, sci-fi drama “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time” has received praise the world over since debutting in the spring of 2006 but has yet to see release outside of it’s country of origin.

Famously, Hosoda dropped out of directing Howl’s Moving Castle (and was later replaced by Hayao Miyazaki) and clearly, immediately began work on this film instead. He made his name by directing the surprising well received Digimon movies: Digimon Adventure (1999) and Digimon Adventure: Children’s War Game (2000) as well as the notably dark “One Piece Movie 6: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island” – therefore, he is marked out as a rising talent in Japan.