{"id":616795,"date":"2026-09-07T01:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/616795\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T01:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:56:09","slug":"finecut-sells-toronto-title-long-long-night-to-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/616795\/","title":{"rendered":"Finecut Sells Toronto Title \u2018Long Long Night\u2019 To Japan\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tKorean sales agency Finecut<\/a> has sold 3D animated feature Long Long Night, which will premiere in Toronto, and July Jung\u2019s Cannes Directors Fortnight<\/a> title Dora to Japan. <\/p>\n

\n\tLong Long Night, the feature debut of Youm Kyu Bock, has been sold to Japan\u2019s Geek Pictures. The film is based on a best-selling Korean novel inspired by a true story, which has sold over 800,000 copies and was included in the 2021 White Ravens list by the International Youth Library in Munich.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter premiering in Toronto\u2019s Centrepiece section, the film also been selected for the main competition section of this year\u2019s Busan film festival and the competitive Anima\u2019t section of Sitges film festival in Spain.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEven from just the 15-minute promo footage, we were deeply moved by the beauty of the film and the way it captures the world of the original story, by the endearing bond between the last rhino on Earth and a penguin, and by the kindness and strength that come through in its message of living for someone else. We immediately felt that this was a film we wanted to bring to audiences in Japan,\u201d said Geek Pictures CEO Tamotsu Kosano.<\/p>\n

\n\tGeek Pictures has also acquired Japanese rights to Dora, the third feature by director July Jung that premiered at this year\u2019s Cannes Directors\u2019 Fortnight and has been invited to the Gala Presentation section of the Busan International Film Festival. Finecut has also sold the film to Light Year Images for Taiwan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFinecut\u2019s Toronto slate also includes animated feature Guardians Of The Video Game <\/a>and Japan filmmaker Takuya Miyahara\u2019s horror-thriller Wash Away, which will have its world premiere in the Panorama section of Sitges Film Festival,\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Korean sales agency Finecut has sold 3D animated feature Long Long Night, which will premiere in Toronto, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[261742,93,261743,61,60,270,261744],"class_list":["post-616795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-cannes-directors-fortnight","tag-entertainment","tag-finecut","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-toronto-film-fesival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}