GKIDS announced on Bluesky on Monday that it will screen Hideaki Anno’s 1998 live-action film LOVE & POP in North American theaters beginning on February 21.
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The film was Anno’s first feature-length live-action film, which he directed after the first Neon Genesis Evangelion anime and before Shin Godzilla and Shin Kamen Rider.
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The film is based on Ryū Murakami’s 1996 Love and Pop: Topaz II novel, published by Gentosha.
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The film will start playing at the IFC Center in New York City on February 21, and at the American Cinematheque’s Los Feliz Theatre in Los Angeles 3 on February 23, with more cities to be announced.