Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival in Cardiff

Genkina Hito

映画男!!!
<strong>Tales From Earthsea</strong>, <strong>Arrietty</strong>, <strong>Paprika</strong> and <strong>Redline</strong>, will be screened at Cardiff&rsquo;s Chapter Arts Centre on the <strong>25th</strong> and <strong>26th</strong> of November as part of the Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival.

The annual Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival showcases a number of different anime movies over two days as well as other cultural events.

<strong>Friday the 25th of November </strong>will see the screening of Japanese short animated films at the University of Glamorgan&rsquo;s&nbsp; ATRiuM building from 18:00 &ndash; 19:00. These films include,
<strong>
La/Radio Noise*Planet</strong> &ndash; Soubi Yamamoto
<strong>
Something Left, Something Taken</strong> &ndash; Tiny Inventions

<strong>Dreams</strong> &ndash; Chie Arai

<strong>Magnifying Glass</strong> &ndash; Kotaro Sato
<strong>
Many Go Round</strong> &ndash; Yoshihisa Nakanishi
<strong>
Aquatic Language</strong> &ndash; Yasuhiro Yoshiura
<strong>
Picnic Rucksack</strong> &ndash; Atsuko Koguma
<strong>
Amanatsu</strong> &ndash; Kamimazedouga

<strong>Ants</strong> &ndash; Tomomichi Nakamura


<strong>Saturday the 26th of November</strong> will see the Chapter Arts Centre screening:
<strong>
Arrietty</strong> - 11 a.m. Cinema 1 &pound;3.50

<strong>Paprika</strong> - 1 p.m. Cinema 2 &pound;3.50
<strong>
Tales from Earthsea</strong> &ndash; 3 p.m. Cinema 1 &pound;3.50

<strong>Redline</strong> - 6 p.m. Cinema 1 &pound;6.50

On top of these events there will also be haiku and calligraphy workshops, a Japanese market place where games and manga from the UK and Japan will be traded, Japanese and Korean food thanks to the Yakiniku foodshop and a charity raffle to help young mothers in the disaster hit area of Japan with tickets costing just 50p. For more information on the location, times and how to book check out the <a href="http://www.kotatsufestival.com/programme.html">site</a>.
 
Last year I found out about it actually on the Saturday, too late to get to anything.

This year.. I managed to book the Friday off but it is too late to get the Saturday as there is no availability, so I'll be occupied from 10am till 9pm :(
 
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