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GKIDS announced on Thursday that the North American premiere of The Colors Inside (Kimi no Iro), a new anime film from Science SARU and director Naoko Yamada, will screen on the opening night of the Animation is Film Festival. Film in Los Angeles on October 18. The festival will also screen the US 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 Ghost Cat Anzu French.-Japanese animation.
The festival will also screen the North American premiere of the Miyazaki documentary Spirit of Nature about the ecological connections throughout Hayao Miyazaki's career.
The anime The Colors Inside debuted in Japan on August 30. The film was originally scheduled to open in the fall of 2023, but was later expected to open in 2024. GKIDS has acquired the film for North America, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand. Anime Ltd. acquired the film for Europe. PLAION PICTURES will handle the Italian and German-speaking territories, while CHARADES will manage sales for the rest of Europe, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand.
Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain opened in Japan on July 26 and ranked at #7 in its opening weekend. The film was previously scheduled to open last year but was delayed. In addition to the announcement to postpone the release date to February 2023, the film crew also announced that Takahiro Sakurai will no longer take on the role of Medicine Seller as originally planned. Instead, Hiroshi Kamiya voiced the main character Medicine Seller in the film. Netflix will stream the movie online.
Ghost Cat Anzu opened in Japan on July 19. GKIDS will screen the film in the US this winter.
The Animation is Film festival will take place in Los Angeles on October 18-20.
Source: Animation is Film's website, GKIDS's Instagram page