<Announcing the program for the Seoul screenings>

Japan Image Council, on behalf of the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs, will present “Tidal Currents in Japanese Animation”, a five-day festival of Japanese animation, this November 17^th to 21^st in Seoul, South Korea. This event is being held as part of an ongoing “Japanese Film Festivals in Asia” project which has been run by the Agency for Cultural Affairs since 2004, and it is intended to both deepen the understanding of Japanese culture in Korea and to promote the exchange of cinematic culture between the two nations. This is the first festival in this series to focus exclusively on animation, and a total of 75 short and feature-length works will be screened in 16 programs designed to introduce audiences to the diversity of Japanese animation. Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (TV version), winner of the Grand Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival Animation Awards, has been selected as the opening screening. In the general program, which begins with a selection of long and short works by pioneering Japanese animator Tezuka Osamu, includes feature-length works never before screened in South Korea by renowned Japanese directors such as Hayao Miyazaki, Mamoru Oshii, Isao Takahata, Katsuhiro Otomo, Rintaro, as well as several new works including REDLINE, Welcome to THE SPACE SHOW and Time of EVE. The diverse range of programs to be screened includes selected short works by groundbreaking art animation creators Yoji Kuri and Taku Furukawa, a collection of works by Koji Yamamura, an animator who has won prizes at the four most important international animation festivals, a collection of works produced by ROBOT CAGE, including an Academy Award winning short animated film by Kunio Kato, and a collection of works by up and coming young filmmakers. As a memorial program dedicated to Satoshi Kon, a renowned animation director who passed away suddenly this year, there will also be a special screening of his feature length film Tokyo Godfathers. In addition to the screenings, on November 20^th we also plan to hold a symposium featuring people involved in animation from both Japan and Korea.

Tidal Currents in Japanese Animation    >>> link(Megabox Sinchon)

Date: November 17^th to 21^st, 2010

Place: Megabox Sinchon

Main organizer: The Agency for Cultural Affairs

Co-organizers: Megabox

Japan Image Council

The Japan Foundation, Seoul

Support: Ministry for Culture, Sport and Tourism Republic of Korea

Public Information and Cultural Center of the Embassy of Japan in Korea

Cooperation: The Korean Film Council, the Korea Creative Content Agency

The Seoul Animation Center, the Japan Animation Association

The Motion Pictures Producers Association of Japan, Inc.

The Association of Japanese Animations, UNIJAPAN

Program : Animation screenings (16 programs 75 films)

1. Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (Opening screening)
   Masaki Tachibana / 2010 / 95 min.
2. Space Firebird
   Osamu Tezuka / 1980 / 123 min.
3. Selected Works by Osamu Tezuka (five shorts films)
   (1) Astro’s First Love  1981 / 23 min.
   (2) Tales of a Street Corner  1962 / 39 min.
   (3) JUMPING  1984 / 6 min.
   (4) Broken Down Film  1985 / 6 min.
   (5) Legend of the Forest  1988 / 30 min.
4. Little Norse Prince Valiant
   Isao Takahata / 1968 / 82 min.
5. Galaxy Express 999
   Rintaro / 1979 / 129 min.
6. LUPIN THE 3rd, THE CASTLE OF CAGLIOSTRO
   Hayao Miyazaki / 1979 / 100 min.
7. PATLABOR: THE MOVIE
   Mamoru Oshii / 1989 / 98 min.
8. MEMORIES
   Katsuhiro Otomo／Tensai Okamura／Koji Morimoto / 1995 / 114 min.
9. Welcome to THE SPACE SHOW
   Kohi Masunari / 2010 / 136 min.
10. Time of EVE The Movie
    Yasuhiro Yoshiura / 106 min.
11. REDLINE
    Takeshi Koike / 2010 / 102 min.
12. Satoshi Kon Memorial: Tokyo Godfathers
    Satoshi Kon / 2003 / 90 min.
13. Selected Works by Yoji Kuri and Taku Furukawa (10 short films)
    Yohi Kuri
    (1) Two Fishes  1960 / 23 min.
    (2) Human Zoo  1962 / 3 min.
    (3) AOS  1964 / 9 min.
    (4) AU FOU !  1967 / 10 min.
    Taku Furukawa
    (5) Phenakistiscope  1975 / 5 min.
    (6) Coffee Break  1977 / 3 min.
    (7) Speed  1980 / 5 min.
    (8) TarZAN  1990 / 8 min.
    (9) PAPER FILM  2005 / 6 min.
    (10) Nose Tale  2010 / 6 min.
14. Selected Works by Koji Yamamura (7 short films)
    (1) Aquatic  1987 / 5 min.
    (2) Pacusi  1995 / 18 min.
    (3) Babel’s Book  1996 / 5 min.
    (4) Mt. Head  2002 / 10 min.
    (5) The Old Crocodile  2005 / 13 min.
    (6) A Child’s Metaphysics  2007 / 5 min.
    (7) Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor  2007 / 21 min.
15. The Work of ROBOT CAGE (28 short films)
    Tatsutoshi Nomura
    (1) STRAYSHEEP/Submarine/Bath/Merry-Go-Round  1994 / 2 min.
    (2) The Tiny Adventure of STRAYSHEEP/Episode1″Dream of Poe”  2001 / 2 min.
    (3) Moon Boon/Episode1″Full Moon of Crescent Moon Island”  2008 / 4 min.
    (4) The Night Game  2001 / 5 min.
    (5)  Jam the HOUSNAIL/Episode14 “Jam rides a sleigh”  2005 / 5 min.
    (6)  “Midnight Restaurant”  1995 / 1 min.
    Takuya Inaba
    (7) A Fantasy of Bubbules  2006 / 1 min.
    (8) TV program – NHK ?Issho ni Irunkara?  2009 / 2 min.
    (9) PV – skimaswitch　AKATSUKI NO UTA  2006 / 5 min.
    (10) NANAMI-CHAN SPOT  2003 / 2 min.
    (11) NISSUI “Ai no Yakionigiri”  2009 / 3 min.
    (12) egao no hana  2010 / 3 min.
    (13) KURO  2010 / 7 min.
    Osamu Sakai Works
    (14) ＮＨＫ MINNA NO UTA “ARIGATOU”  2010 / 2 min.
    (15) House Foods “pocupocu”  2009 / 1 min.
    (16) Waltzing Matilda  2007 / 4 min
    (17) catch anime -for Animation＊three  2003 / 1 min.
    (18) ＮＨＫ MINNA NO UTA　”Kin no Makiba”  2004 / 5 min.
    (19) House Foods “pocupocu”  2009 / 1 min.
    (20) crimson  2010 / 5 min.
    (21) House Foods “pocupocu”  2009 / 1 min.
    (22) ＮＨＫ MINNA NO UTA “PoPo Loouise”  2008 / 5 min.
    Kunio Kato
    (23) catch anime -for Animation＊three “YORORERU”  2005 / 1 min.
    (24) MTV Art Break Project “MUSIC FLOWER”  2004 / 1 min.
    (25) Original animation for DVD“The Diary of Tortov Roddle “Red Fruits”  2004 / 6 min.
    (26) SEKISUI HEIM CM”For What Waits Ahead”Spring & summer  2010 / 1 min.
    (27) yuki (the snow)  2010 / 1 min.
    (28) La maison en petits cubes  2007 / 12 min.
16. Journey to a New Generation (14 short films)
    (1) Tokyo FANTASIA
    G9+1（Shinichi Suzuki／Tatsuo Shimamura／Norio HIkone／Taku Furukawa／Haru Fukushima／Fumio Oi／Hiroshi Nishimura／Keizo Kira／Azuru Isshiki／Toshikatsu Wada
）/ 2009 / 8 min.
    (2) Their standing points
    Makoto Shinkai / 1999 / 5 min.
    (3) The Evening Traveling
    Akino Kondo / 2002 / 4 min.
    (4) Ski Jumping Pairs
    Riichiro Mashima  / 2002 / 6 min.
    (5) Bloomed Words
    Amika Kubo／Seita Inoue / 2006 / 2 min.
    (6)the seasons
    Junpei Fujita / 2004 / 2 min.
    (7) Cornelis
    Ayaka Nakata / 2008 / 4 min.
    (8) Ushi-Nichi
    Hiroco Ichinose / 2008 / 9 min.
    (9) HAND SOAP
    Kei Oyama / 2008 / 16 min.
    (10) Lizard Planet
    Tomoyoshi Joko / 2009 / 5 min.
    (11) JAM
    Mizue Mirai / 2009 / 3 min.
    (12) Chisato stared
    Wataru Uekusa / 2009 / 3 min.
    (13) The undertaker and the dog
    Shin Hashimoto / 2009 / 5 min.
    (14) In a Pig’s Eye
    Atsushi Wada / 2010 / 4 min.

Inquiries concerning this event should be directed to:

Japan Image Council (JAPIC)

Tel: 03-6670-5676 / Fax: 03-5466-0054

e-mail: japic@japic.jp