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San Francisco's Japan Film Fest to Premiere Hunter x Hunter, Silver Spoon, Crows Explode
posted on by Lynzee Loveridge
The Japan Film Festival of San Francisco announced this year's film lineup on Wednesday. The July 19-27 event will host director Mitsutoshi Tanaka (Castle Under Fiery Skies) at the west coast premiere of his live-action Ask This Of Rikyu film on July 19. The festival will also feature the U.S. premieres of the Crows: Explode film.
The festival will screen:
Short Peace (July 20)
The Garden of Words (July 21)
anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day film (July 21)
Silver Spoon live-action film (U.S. Premiere, July 22, 26)
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III - The Advent (July 23, 27)
Crows: Explode (U.S. Premiere, July 24, 27)
Hunter × Hunter -The Last Mission- (U.S. Premiere, July 26)
The festival will also screen Count Five To Dream Of You, Kotodama – Spiritual Curse, J-POP Splash!, Tokyo Short Stories, Sion Sono's Why Don't You Play In Hell?, Bon Lin, A Tale of Samurai Cooking: A True Love Story, Pecoross' Mother and Her Days, A Tale of Yonosuke, and Kanzaburo – The Movie. All films will screen with English subtitles.
The event Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo film.
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Last year's anime slate included the San Francisco premiere of Space Battleship Yamato.