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Cambridge Screening of Totto-Chan Film and Director Q&A on November 16
posted on by Andrew Osmond
The event will include a live Q&A with the film's director, Shinnosuke Yakuwa. (He will also appear in a London screening of the film; this will be at the Picturehouse Central cinema on Friday November 15 at 5.30 p.m., and is part of the Scotland Loves Anime festival.)
Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window is Shinei Animation's anime film of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's Madoigwa no Totto-chan autobiographical memoir. The film opened in Japan on December 8. Kuroyanagi's memoir tells her story of going to school at Tomoe Gakuen, after not fitting at her original elementary school. She meets unique students and learns new things at school, even as Japan descends into war. Kuroyanagi published the book in Japan in 1981, where it became a bestseller over the next year. It became required reading for Japanese elementary school students in the 1980s, and was also translated in English and many other languages worldwide.
The Japan Foundation is also screening two Japanese live-action films at the same venue on the same day; see this link for details.
