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Weathering With You Film Wins Animation Is Film Festival's Audience Award
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Ride Your Wave also screened in competition in L.A. festival
Genki Kawamura appearing in person.
Jérémy Clapin's I Lost My Body film won the Grand Prize during the October 18-20 festival.
The festival also hosted the North American premiere of the Ayumu Watanabe also attended the festival.
Weathering With You highest-earning domestic film of all time in Japan and the highest-grossing film in Japan this year.
dub beginning on January 17.
GKIDS describes the film:
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if to suggest his future. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strongwilled girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky...
Source: IndieWire (Bill Desowitz)
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