‘Ghost Cat Anzu’ Co-Directors Yôko Kuno And Nobuhiro Yamashita Talk Rotoscoping Animation For Their Phantom Feline Tale – Cannes Studio

Title: Ghost Cat Anzu
Section: Directors’ Fortnight
Directors: Yôko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita
Logline: A young girl named Karin finds herself abandoned by her father and living with her monk grandfather in the Japanese countryside. Then Anzu, a phantom feline, steps in as her guardian.
Distributor: GKIDS
Panelists: Yôko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita
Key quotes: “I was really fond of the author of the [original] manga, Takashi Imashiro, and I already made some films from his manga in the past, but this Anzu was the only manga for children. So, I was always thinking of wanting to make it a film. So when I was asked to make the film, I was really thrilled that I could do this finally.” – Nobuhiro Yamashita

Sales Agent: Charades

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