Thursday, March 15, 2007

Trailer For New (Sort-Of) Ghibli Film

From ghibliworld.com:

Kitaro Kosaka’s director debut from 2003, Nasu: Andalusia no Natsu (or Nasu: Summer in Andalusia as it's called in English) will receive a sequel this year called Nasu 2. For those haven’t heard of Nasu: Andalusia no Natsu, it was the first Japanese animation film ever to be selected for the Cannes Film Festival. All though it's a Madhouse anime, it's still sort of a Studio Ghibli film as director Kitaro Kosaka is one of the main animators of Studio Ghibli. He worked on Studio Ghibli films like Howl's Moving Castle (animation director), Mononoke Hime (animation supervisor), Spirited Away (animator supervisor), Laputa: Castle in the Sky (key animator), Grave of the Fireflies (key animator) and many more.

Continuing its story in Japan, this year its sequel Nasu 2 will be released. Kitaro Kosaka will team up again with Madhouse. More importantly Yoshida Kenichi joined the team as animation director, who is a famous Studio Ghibli artist as well. In the past he worked as key animator on Ghibli films like Princess Mononoke, Whisper of the Heart, Porco Rosso, Only Yesterday and many more. Anyway, there now is a trailer of Nasu 2 available, so check it out!

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2 Comments:

Blogger Heather said...

I'm not that into bicycling, but I think I need to track down Nasu 1 and check it out if it did well enough to spawn a sequel.

7:52 AM  
Blogger Jeff Pidgeon said...

I don't know anything about it! I'd never even heard of it before this. But there's so many films overseas that don't get on America's radar at all that it doesn't really mean anything.

5:19 PM  

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