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Blue Giant London Screening With Director Q&A on January 26

posted on by Andrew Osmond
Director Yuzuru Tachikawa will be at screening at The Rio cinema in Dalton, Hackney, before film opens elsewhere from January 31

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Yuzuru Tachikawa. The venue will be The Rio cinema in Dalton, Hackney (map) and the screening will begin at 6.15 p.m. Tachikawa will be interviewed by Michael Leader of the Ghibliotheque podcast. Tickets for the screening are available here.

The film will open subsequently in selected UK and Ireland cinemas on January 31.

Yuzuru Tachikawa (TOHO animation is distributing the film, which won the Audience Award at the 2023 Scotland Loves Anime festival.

World-renowned pianist Millennium Parade band, played drums for Shunji Tamada.

publishing Ishizuka's 10-volume Blue Giant manga series as five omnibus volumes, and it describes the story:

Miyamoto Dai, a student with a taste for basketball, changes his life the first time he sees a live jazz performance. The incredible music strikes a chord deep inside him, and he immediately decides to dedicate himself to the saxophone. He has no skills, no formal training, and no idea what he's up against, but his obsession drives him to play that instrument day after day. Will ion be enough to become the player of his dreams? This award-winning manga from Shinichi Ishizuka, compiled into five omnibus volumes for its English debut, is a pitch-perfect drama about the power of music.

Ishizuka (Media Arts Festival Awards in 2017.

Ishizuka then launched Blue Giant Supreme sequel manga in Big Comic in September 2016, and ended it in April 2020. The manga had 10 volumes.

Ishizuka launched a new Blue Giant Explorer in Big Comic in May 2020.

The Blue Giant manga series has a cumulative total of 10 million copies in circulation.


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