otakunews a Letter to Momo wins the Best Animated Feature category at the 6th APSA

Hiroyuki Okiura and Production I.G's A Letter to Momo won the Best Animated Feature category at the 6th Asian Pacific Screen Awards on Friday in Brisbane, Australia. Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honnêamise, Appleseed) received the 2012 APSA FIAPF award for Outstanding Achievement in Film, and he performed two pieces from the films Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence and The Last Emperor live at the awards ceremony.

A Letter to Momo competed for Best Animated Feature against Goro Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's From Up On Poppy Hill, Kônosuke Uda and Toei's Rainbow Fireflies (Niji-Iro Hotaru ~Eien no Natsu Yasumi~), Mamoru Hosoda and Studio Chizu's Wolf Children, and George Miller and Warner Brothers' Happy Feet Two. This is the first Japanese win in this category since Makoto Shinkai's 5 Centimeters Per Second took home the honor in 2007.

The film held its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2011, and it opened in Japan on April 21. The film received the Grand Prize for Best Feature Film at this year's New York International Children's Film Festival and won the main prize in the "Feature film" category at the Czech AniFest. GKids will release the film in theaters in 2013 to qualify for the Academy Awards that will be held in early 2014. But you guys will not be needing to wait till then for a review of this movie I have a coppy and will be watching and reviwing ir shortly probly by the end of the week depending on when I have a day off from work

otakunews Grave of the Fireflies' 25th Anniversary Theatrical Release Planned in U.S.

The distribution company GKids announced on Tuesday that it has acquired the North American theatrical rights to Isao Takahata and Studio Ghibli's Grave of the Fireflies film from Toho

GKids is planning a 25th anniversary theatrical release in the United States. The film will also be added to GKids current Studio Ghibli retrospective that is touring the country.

Sentai Filmworks is re-releasing the film in North America, and the company released the film for the first time on Blu-ray Disc in North America on Tuesday. Both Central Park Media and ADV Films have previously released this acclaimed adaptation of Akiyuki Nosaka's wartime novel in North America.

Okay this is sum thing I am rely intarested in they have not put a list of states and theaters. So I holding out hope MA will get sum love and we get this hear I would rely love to drag my friends who havent seen it yet to the movies.

otaku home up on puppy hill to play in North Hollywood till tuesday

GKids is playing Goro Miyazaki( Hayao MIYAZAKI's son)and Studio Ghibli's From Up On Poppy Hill film at 1:00 p.m. daily at the Laemmle NoHo 7 theater in the North Hollywood district of Los Angeles until Tuesday.

Up on Poppy Hill played at the same theater on Friday as part of the GKids Animation Showcase. GKids has submitted the film for consideration in the 85th Academy Awards category of Best Animated Picture.

GKids is also showing a special sneak preview of A Letter to Momo on Saturday at 9:45 p.m. at the same theater.

   You know guys this is the second story Iv posed this month about anime movies being shown hear in US theaters. And gess what just like the modaka movies Im not going to be able to go see this one ether because I live in Massachusetts insted of california. Its not rely that big of a deal in the long run But it rely just gets to me sumtimes you know. MA is home to one of the USAs largest anime conventions around but when it comes time to show a anime they chose plases that dont rely make much seces to me. But what ever anime Boston is more of a compasation for this little upset.