The Japan Foundation, Toronto and The Revue Cinema co-presents
My Neighbor Totoro & From Up on Poppy Hill
August 25 & 26, 2018 4:00 PM
@Revue Cinema 400 Roncesvalles Ave.
Watch Studio Ghibli’s most beloved anime films this summer on the big screen! My Neighbor Totoro and the more recent feature film From Up on Poppy Hill will be screening at the Revue Cinema, as part of their Anime! at the Revue, a fan-favourite monthly series screening new and classic anime films. The ongoing series is sponsored by The Beguiling, Canada’s premier retailer of comics and high-art funny books.
The film screenings coincide with the upcoming lecture and discussion, “Studio Ghibli & Kenji Miyazawa: Viewing Hayao Miyazaki’s animated films through the works of Kenji Miyazawa” taking place at the Japan Foundation, Toronto on August 30, 2018 6:30 PM. To register of for more details about the lecture, please click here >
My Neighbor Totoro
JAPAN, (1988) 86 min, G
Directed Hayao Miyazaki
In this breathtakingly beautiful Studio Ghibli film, siblings Satsuki and Mei move with their father to an old house in rural Japan in order to be closer to the hospital where their ill mother resides. Very shortly, Satsuki and Mei discover their new home is filled with susuwatari, or soot spirits, which they succeed in convincing to leave the house: however, that is just the beginning of their adventures with the community of spirits surrounding them that adults cannot see. Masterly crafted, My Neighbour Totoro is both a cult favourite and internationally acclaimed, consistently ranking high on lists of the best movies ever made, and Totoro himself has become an icon. – Crystal Madore
Presented in Japanese w/ English subtitles.
Prizes courtesy The Beguiling Books & Art.
Presented with the generous support of Japan Foundation, Toronto.
From Up on Poppy Hill
JAPAN, (2011) 91 min PG
Directed by Goro Miyazaki
From the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle and The Secret World of Arrietty, comes another animated triumph. Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the Olympics. Against this backdrop of hope and change, a friendship begins to blossom between high school students Umi and Shun – but a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart.
Presented in Japanese w/ English subtitles.
Prizes courtesy The Beguiling Books & Art.
Presented with the generous support of Japan Foundation, Toronto.
