Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival in Cardiff
Tales From Earthsea, Arrietty, Paprika and Redline, will be screened at Cardiff’s Chapter Arts Centre on the 25th and 26th of November as part of the Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival.
The annual Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival showcases a number of different anime movies over two days as well as other cultural events.
Friday the 25th of November will see the screening of Japanese short animated films at the University of Glamorgan’s ATRiuM building from 18:00 – 19:00. These films include,
La/Radio Noise*Planet – Soubi Yamamoto
Something Left, Something Taken – Tiny Inventions
Dreams – Chie Arai
Magnifying Glass – Kotaro Sato
Many Go Round – Yoshihisa Nakanishi
Aquatic Language – Yasuhiro Yoshiura
Picnic Rucksack – Atsuko Koguma
Amanatsu – Kamimazedouga
Ants – Tomomichi Nakamura
Saturday the 26th of November will see the Chapter Arts Centre screening:
Arrietty – 11 a.m. Cinema 1 £3.50
Paprika – 1 p.m. Cinema 2 £3.50
Tales from Earthsea – 3 p.m. Cinema 1 £3.50
Redline – 6 p.m. Cinema 1 £6.50
On top of these events there will also be haiku and calligraphy workshops, a Japanese market place where games and manga from the UK and Japan will be traded, Japanese and Korean food thanks to the Yakiniku foodshop and a charity raffle to help young mothers in the disaster hit area of Japan with tickets costing just 50p. For more information on the location, times and how to book check out the site.
