{"id":518512,"date":"2026-07-10T01:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/518512\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T01:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:26:20","slug":"salamander-pictures-nippon-animations-20001-an-earth-odyssey-anime-short-to-premiere-on-july-18-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/518512\/","title":{"rendered":"Salamander Pictures, Nippon Animation’s 20001 An Earth Odyssey Anime Short to Premiere on July 18 – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Salamander Pictures and Nippon Animation<\/a> announced on Friday that their 20001 An Earth Odyssey anime short will premiere in competition at the Fantasia International Film Festival<\/a> 2026 on July 18. The festival will take place in Montreal from July 16 to August 2.<\/p>\n

\"image1-keyvisual.png\"Image courtesy of Salamander Pictures<\/p>\n

\u00a9Salamander Pictures \/ Nippon Animation<\/p>\n


\n \"image3-scenestills1.png\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\n \u00a9Salamander Pictures \/ Nippon Animation\n <\/p>\n


\n \"image3-scenstills2.png\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\n \u00a9Salamander Pictures \/ Nippon Animation\n <\/p>\n


\n \"image3-scenestills3.png\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\n \u00a9Salamander Pictures \/ Nippon Animation\n <\/p>\n


\n \"image3-scenestills4.png\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\n \u00a9Salamander Pictures \/ Nippon Animation\n <\/p>\n


\n \"image2-maincharacters.png\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\n \u00a9Salamander Pictures \/ Nippon Animation\n <\/p>\n

The companies describe the film:\n<\/p>\n

The story is set in the year 20,001. Long after humanity’s extinction, three aliens land on Earth. Their
\n\tmission: to investigate why human civilization collapsed.<\/p>\n

Led by Captain Kepo, the team misinterprets the relics left behind by humanity, mistaking a swing for a
\n\tsacred altar, an umbrella for a communications device, and a graveyard for a farm. Kepo is stubborn,
\n\tbut holds deep respect for humanity; Alcia attempts logical analysis; and Regal, the rookie of the
\n\tgroup, reaches closer to the truth through pure intuition. Through the trio’s misunderstandings and
\n\tdiscoveries, the film poses questions like \u201cWhat does it mean to be human?\u201d, \u201cWhat is civilization?\u201d,
\n\tand \u201cWere humans really an intelligent species?\u201d, all through the lens of light, surreal comedy.\n<\/p>\n

The cast members include Y\u014dji Ueda<\/a>, Y\u016b Kobayashi<\/a>, and Eito Kawahara<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Haruki Kasugamori<\/a> (Dragon Goes House-Hunting<\/a>) directed the film, and Kazuto Nakazawa<\/a> (Samurai Champloo<\/a>, Kill Bill<\/a>) designed the characters. Taiki Sakurai<\/a> (Pok\u00e9mon Concierge<\/a>) was in charge of the original story and production. Akira Miyagawa<\/a> (Grimm’s Variations) composed the music. Taiki Sakurai and Hitomi Hiratsuka<\/a> produced, and Yumiko Yoshizawa<\/a> and Taiki Sakurai wrote the screenplay.<\/p>\n

The companies first announced the film at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival (MIFA) in June 2026.<\/p>\n

Source: Press release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Salamander Pictures and Nippon Animation announced on Friday that their 20001 An Earth Odyssey anime short will premiere…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-518512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}