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Yuasa's Night is Short, Walk On Girl Anime Film Screens in Hong Kong on March 22
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Hong Kong film distributor Edko Films announced on Tuesday that it will screen Masaaki Yuasa's Night is Short, Walk On Girl anime film in Hong Kong on March 22.
Night is Short, Walk On Girl opened in Japan last April. The film adapts Tomihiko Morimi's (The Eccentric Family, The Tatami Galaxy) novel of the same name. The story takes place in Kyoto, and follows an upperclassman ("Sempai") who falls in love with his underclassman ("Girl with Black Hair") and tries to get her attention. The film won the Grand Prize for Features award at the Ottawa International Film Festival last September, where it screened in competition alongside Yuasa's Lu over the wall. It also won Animation of the Year award at the 41st annual Japan Academy Prizes earlier this month.
The main staff of The Tatami Galaxy anime returned for the film. Yuasa directed the film at his Science SARU studio, and Makoto Ueda wrote the script. Yūsuke Nakamura, the cover artist for the original novel as well as The Tatami Galaxy, designed the characters. Michiru Ōshima composed the music.
Edko Films is also screening Yuasa's Lu over the wall film in Hong Kong this month.
