{"id":178481,"date":"2025-10-04T05:27:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178481\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T05:27:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:27:05","slug":"tokyo-intl-film-fest-to-show-labyrinth-the-obsessed-edge-of-time-angels-egg-4k-remaster-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178481\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Int’l Film Fest to Show Labyrinth, The Obsessed, Edge of Time, Angel’s Egg 4K Remaster – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 38th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) announced on Wednesday the films it will screen in its Animation category. TIFF will show the Asian premiere of Sh\u014dji Kawamori<\/a>‘s original animation\u00a0film<\/a> Labyrinth (Meiky\u016b no Shiori<\/a>), the musical anime\u00a0film<\/a>\u00a0of Shinji Ishii<\/a>‘s Toritsukare Otoko<\/a> (The Obsessed) novel, the international premiere of the multinational omnibus film Edge of Time, \u00a0and the Japanese premiere of the 4K\u00a0remaster<\/a>\u00a0for Mamoru Oshii<\/a> and Yoshitaka Amano<\/a>‘s 1985 original video anime Angel’s Egg (Tenshi no Tamago<\/a>). The festival, which will run from October 27 to November 5,\u00a0will also screen Japan’s first feature-length animated film, 1945’s Momotaro, Sacred Sailors<\/a> (Momotaro – Umi no Shinpei).<\/p>\n

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Kawamori’s original animation film Labyrinth will open in Japan on January 1. Kawamori is directing the anime, his first feature-length animated film not based on an existing franchise<\/a>, at SANZIGEN<\/a>. The original story concept is credited to the companies Slow Curve<\/a>, Vector Vision<\/a>, GAGA<\/a>, and Fuji Television<\/a>, and Slow Curve is also credited with planning and producing the project. Risa Ebata<\/a> (Macross Frontier<\/a>, AKB0048<\/a>) is designing the characters, and Taichi Hashimoto<\/a> (Listeners<\/a>, Gate Keepers 21<\/a>) wrote the script.<\/p>\n

The film centers on Shiori Maezawa, a completely ordinary high school girl who finds herself in a deserted parallel world of Yokohama after her smartphone suddenly breaks. When she checks her phone, she finds photos of herself on her social media accounts that she does not remember posting. In order to stop her other self from going out of control, Shiori tries to escape from her smartphone’s strange labyrinth.<\/p>\n

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The musical anime film Toritsukare Otoko will screen at the festival under the title English title The Obsessed. The film will open in theaters in Japan on November 7. Wataru Takahashi<\/a> (Crayon Shin-chan<\/a> 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021 films) is directing the film at Shinei Animation<\/a>, with a script by Naoyuki Miura<\/a> (Fujoshi, Ukkari Gay ni Kokuru.). Masatsugu Arakawa<\/a> (Windy Tales<\/a>, Medabots Spirit<\/a>) is designing the characters. Bandai Namco Filmworks<\/a> is distributing.<\/p>\n

The 2001 novel\u00a0centers on Giuseppe, a man known in his town as the “Obsessed Man,” due to his tendency to be obsessed about a particular thing for short amounts of time, during which he pays no heed to anything else. One day, he sees a balloon seller named Pechka, and he falls in love at first sight. Though Giuseppe tries to get close to Pechka, the sadness that Pechka holds in her heart keeps him at a distance. Giuseppe enlists the aid of his mosue friend Cielo, as he uses the things he was previously obsessed about to slowly help Pechka.<\/p>\n

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Edge of Time is a 97-minute, four-part anthology film previously known as the TAISU Project<\/a>. It features shorts by Japanese directors Shinichir\u014d Watanabe<\/a> (Cowboy Bebop<\/a>, Macross Plus<\/a>, Space Dandy<\/a>) \u00a0and Shuhei Morita<\/a> (Freedom<\/a>, Tokyo Ghoul<\/a>) and Chinese directors Li Wei and Weng Ming with the motif of “Taisu,” an energy that transcends time and space. The festival describe its stories: “In order to find the only friend, search for love and memories in the edge of time and space.”\n<\/p>\n

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\nThe 4K remaster of\u00a0Angel’s Egg will screen at TIFF on October 29 and 30, with special appearances by director Oshii and voice actress Mako Hy\u014dd\u014d<\/a> after the screening on October 30.\u00a0Angel’s Egg\u00a04K remaster\u00a0will have its Japanese theatrical debut (outside festivals) at Dolby Cinemas in Japan on November 14, before opening wider for theaters nationwide on November 21.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 78th Cannes International Film Festival’s Cin\u00e9ma de la Plage\u00a0screened<\/a>\u00a0the world premiere of the 4K remaster\u00a0on May 20.\u00a0The film also\u00a0screened<\/a>\u00a0at Fantastic Fest, which took place in Austin, Texas from September 18-25.\u00a0The film is getting its New York\u00a0premiere<\/a>\u00a0at the 63rd New York Film Festival (NYFF) in the “Revivals” category, with four screenings on September 27 and 30, as well as October 4 and 6. Beyond Fest at American Cinematheque in Los Angeles will\u00a0screen<\/a>\u00a0the film’s U.S. West Coast premiere on October 5. Spain’s Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival will\u00a0screen<\/a>\u00a0the 4K remaster during its October 9-19 run.\u00a0The Manchester Animation Festival in the United Kingdom will screen<\/a> the 4K remaster on November 9-13.\u00a0GKIDS<\/a>\u00a0will screen<\/a>\u00a0the 4K remaster in North America\u00a0beginning<\/a>\u00a0on November 19.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Momotaro, Sacred Sailors film was produced as World War II propaganda, and film scholars consider it the first feature-length animated film produced in Japan.\u00a0Mitsuyo Seo<\/a> directed the 74-minute black-and-white film after first directing the 37-minute film Momotaro’s Sea Eagle<\/a>\u00a0(which has a similar premise and which scholars also consider to be the first feature-length animated film in Japan, based on different definitions of “feature-length.”) A crew of 70 staff members created\u00a0Momotaro, Sacred Sailors\u00a0using 50,000 animation cels on a budget of 270,000 yen.<\/p>\n

TIFF will also screen the anime films ChaO<\/a>, Jinsei,\u00a0and\u00a0The Last Blossom<\/a>, as well as the French\/Belgian animated film Little Am\u00e9lie or the Character of Rain\u00a0(with French and Japanese dialogue). The international entries include Zaven Najjar’s French film Allah Is Not Obliged, Alberto V\u00e1zquez’s Spanish film Decorado,\u00a0and Rodolfo Ambriz and Arturo Ambriz’s Mexican film\u00a0I Am Frankelda.\u00a0\u00a0The live-action\u00a0film<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0KOTAKE CREATE<\/a>‘s\u00a0infinite-loop horror game The Exit 8 (8-Ban Deguchi<\/a>) will also screen at this year’s festival. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Sources: Press release,\u00a038th Tokyo International Film Festival press conference\u00a0(Egan Loo<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image via Meiky\u016b no Shiori anime film’s website \u00a9GAGA Corporation The 38th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-178481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}