The festival will also screen the U.S. premiere of Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain (Gekijōban Mononoke: Karakasa), the first anime film in the new Mononoke film project, as well as the California premiere of the Ghost Cat Anzu French-Japanese animated film.
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The festival will also screen the North American premiere of the Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature documentary about the ecological connections throughout Hayao Miyazaki’s career.
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The film was originally slated to open in fall 2023, but it was then slated to open in 2024.
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GKIDS announced on Thursday that the North American premiere of The Colors Within (Kimi no Iro), a new anime feature film by Science SARU and director Naoko Yamada, will screen on the opening night of the Animation is Film festival in Los Angeles on October 18.