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Kurayukaba Full-Length Anime Film Wins at Fantasia Int'l Film Festival
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Fantasia International Film Festival on Tuesday.
The Concierge, the anime Slam Dunk basketball manga, won third place.
The First Slam Dunk also SAND LAND anime film won the special jury mention in the same category at this year's Fantasia International Film Festival.
The Kurayukaba project's first crowdfunding ran from December 2018 to February 2019 to fund the pilot film. The campaign raised 6,901,864 yen ($63,000) from 397 backers: 276% of its 2,500,000 yen ($22,100) goal. The campaign reached its 4,000,000 yen ($35,300) stretch goal to create a one-minute video (the original goal was for a 30-second video).
crowdfunding campaign for the film launched in April 2020, and it aimed to raise 20 million yen ($188,000) to fund a film at least 40 minutes long. The campaign ended in August 2020 with 8,798,500 yen ($79,513).
The feature's "opening chapter," earlier pilot film, and documentary video of the cast's dialogue recording sessions had a limited screening in Tokyo's Cine Libre Ikebukuro theater in August 2021, along with director Shigeyoshi Tsukahara's four earlier shorts.
Twiflo describes the anime:
Our story is set beneath the surface of the great metropolis, below the district of Ogi-town in a realm of dreams that floats in a haze of purple lignite smoke.A network of roads stretches away underground, concealing bandits at every turn! An armored train snakes through the looming darkness: the steel-clad train Sokore 463 is equipped with a 75mm mountain gun that can blow a target to smithereens! In command is the mysterious girl Tanne.
What awaits her and her comrades? From the winding alleys of Akegata (dawn) to the deep subterranean world of Kuragari (dark), a daring adventure unfolds!
Professional storyteller Raikō Sakamoto as Inarizaka.
Tsukahara ("Code Geass: Akito the Exiled) designed the characters.
The project also screened at the 2018 Annecy International Animated Film Festival in June 2018.
Sources: Press release, Fantasia International Film Festival's website, Comic Natalie
