The first Hiroshima International Peace Cultural Festival will be held on August 1-28, 2022, and it will then take place every two years.
The film went on to win the Fujimoto Award, the Daijin (Minister) Prize from the Agency for Cultural Affairs, the Hiroshima Peace Film Award at the Hiroshima International Film Festival, Kinema Jumpo magazine’s best Japanese movie of the year, the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year, and the Jury Award in the Feature Film Category at Annecy.
A public relations event for the newly announced Hiroshima International Peace Cultural Festival on Wednesday presented an animated work that blends projection mapping and music for Fumiyo Kouno’s Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms (Yūnagi no Machi, Sakura no Kuni) manga.
The live-action version moved the “Country of Cherry Blossoms” story to present day 2018 with an original story added.