GKIDS, celebrating its fifteenth anniversary as a producer and distributor of award-winning and artist-driven animation from world wide, introduced right now it has acquired all North American distribution rights for Lonely Citadel within the Mirror.
Directed by Keiichi Hara (Miss Hokusai, Colourful, The Wonderland), the heartfelt coming-of-age drama options animation from the lauded A-1 Footage, and is customized from the bestselling novel of the identical title by Mizuki Tsujimura.
Synopsis: Shy outcast Kokoro has been avoiding faculty for weeks when she discovers a portal in her bed room mirror. She reaches via and finds herself transported to a fascinating fortress the place she is joined by six different college students. When a woman in a wolf masks explains that they’ve been invited to play a recreation, the kids should work collectively to uncover the mysterious connection that unites them. Nevertheless, anybody who breaks the foundations shall be eaten by a wolf…
Lonely Citadel within the Mirror held its Worldwide Premiere on the Rotterdam Worldwide Movie
Competition — marking the primary time a Japanese animated function was chosen for the pageant — adopted by its U.S premiere on the New York Worldwide Youngsters’s Movie Competition. It was nominated for the Japan
Academy Prize for Animation of the 12 months, and was launched domestically in Japan in December 2022.
Hara labored with varied previous collaborators on the challenge, together with screenwriter Miho Maruo (Miss Hokusai, The Wonderland), composer Harumi Fuuki (Miss Hokusai, The Wonderland), in addition to acclaimed artist Ilya Kuvshinov (The Wonderland) for visible idea and chateau designs.
GKIDS handles North American distribution for Hara’s earlier function movies Summer season Days with Coo
(2007) and Miss Hokusai (2015). The all-rights North American distribution deal for Lonely Citadel within the Mirror was negotiated between GKIDS and NTV.
“We’re thrilled to have the ability to work once more with director Keiichi Hara” stated GKIDS President David Jesteadt. “His newest movie is a deeply emotional story in regards to the non-public struggles all of us undergo, and the small but joyous connections with others that make life price residing. I can’t await North American audiences to hitch us on a visit to the Lonely Citadel within the Mirror.”
GKIDS will launch Lonely Citadel within the Mirror theatrically in each its authentic Japanese language and an all-new English dubbed model this summer time.
