teach-in
【Teach-in by Katabuchi Sunao】Returning to Hiroshima: Unveiling the Tale of ‘The Mourning Children: Nagiko and the Girls Wearing Tsurubami Black’ Survivors of an Ancient Epidemic
- Screening Schedule
- Nov 23 Sat. 13:00 at NTT CRED Hall 2
- Details
The animated film “Mai Mai Miracle” (2009) features a character named Sei Shōnagon, who spent her formative years in Hōfu. On reaching adulthood, she unexpectedly finds herself thrown into the whirlwind of history. Around the year 1000, a time when not all was elegant, “The Pillow Book” was written by the author, poet, and court lady Sei Shōnagon. In this teach-in, Sunao KATABUCHI will lecture how the touch of those times can be captured and transformed onto the screen, revealing approaches employed to bring Sei Shōnagon back to life in his next animated film.
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- Director
Sunao KATABUCHI was born in 1960 and is a specially-appointed professor and senior researcher at Nihon University College of Art. This year marks the 43rd anniversary of his work on the screenplay for “Meitantei Holmes” [lit. Famous Detective Holmes], which he wrote while still a university student. He has directed numerous works, including the TV series “Famous Dog Lassie” (1996), “Black Lagoon” (2006), and the feature films “Princess Arete” (2001), “Mai Mai Miracle” (2009), “In this Corner of the World” (2016), and “In This Corner (And Other Corners) of the World” (2019). He is currently working on the film “The Mourning Children: Nagiko and the Girls Wearing Tsurubami Black” which depicts people from a thousand years ago living in the midst of a plague.
