The Japanese Film Festival Online 2022 event is streaming Takeshi Yashiro’s 2019 stop-motion animation film Gon, the Little Fox and the live-action film adaptation Shion Miura’s Fune o Amu (The Great Passage) novel on its website from November 15-21 as part of a pre-streaming lineup of five films.
The full Japanese Film Festival Online 2022 event will be held from February 14-27 and will screen 20 films for free in 25 countries.
The films are screening in Japanese with subtitles in Arabic, Burmese, Central Khmer, English, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (Spain), Thai, and Vietnamese.
The short is based on Nakichi Niimi’s 1932 novel Gongitsune, and stars Masato Tanaka as Gon and Miyu Irino as Hyojyu.