Gkids has snapped up North American rights to Keiichi Hara’s Lonely Fortress within the Mirror, after serving because the distributor within the territory for his previous animated options Summer season Days with Coo and Miss Hokusai. The movie based mostly on the bestselling novel of the identical title by Mizuki Tsujimura, that includes animation from A-1 Footage, is slated for a theatrical launch in each its authentic Japanese language and an all-new English dub this summer season.
Reuniting Hara with collaborators together with screenwriter Miho Maruo, composer Harumi Fuuki and artist Ilya Kuvshinov, Lonely Fortress within the Mirror follows shy outcast Kokoro, who has been avoiding college for weeks when she discovers a portal in her bed room mirror. She reaches via and finds herself transported to a fascinating citadel the place she is joined by six different college students. And when a woman in a wolf masks explains that they’ve been invited to play a recreation, the teenagers should work collectively to uncover the mysterious connection that unites them. Nonetheless, anybody who breaks the principles might be eaten by a wolf.
Pic held its worldwide premiere as the primary Japanese animated number of the Rotterdam Movie Competition and was launched in Japan in December, scoring a nomination for the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Yr. Ami Touma, Takumi Kitamura, Sakura Kiryu, Rihito Itagaki, Naho Yokomizo, Minami Takayama, Yuki Kaji and Mana Ashida characteristic within the Japanese voice solid of the movie produced by Hirotaka Aragaki and Kei Kishiyama.
“We’re thrilled to have the ability to work once more with director Keiichi Hara,” stated Gkids President David Jesteadt. “His newest movie is a deeply emotional story in regards to the personal struggles all of us undergo, and the small but joyous connections with others that make life price dwelling. I can’t watch for North American audiences to hitch us on a visit to the Lonely Fortress within the Mirror.”
A producer and distributor of award-winning and artist-driven animation celebrating its fifteenth anniversary, Gkids has notched a complete of 12 Animated Function Oscar nominations since its founding in 2008, with titles together with The Secret of Kells, A Cat in Paris, Chico & Rita, Ernest & Celestine, The Story of The Princess Kaguya, Music of the Sea, Boy and the World, When Marnie Was There, My Life as a Zucchini, The Breadwinner, Mirai and Wolfwalkers. The corporate additionally handles North American distribution for the famed Studio Ghibli movie library, in addition to the collection Neon Genesis Evangelion, and hosts the Animation Is Movie pageant yearly in Los Angeles.
The all-rights North American distribution deal for Lonely Fortress within the Mirror was negotiated between Gkids and NTV.
