“Josee, the Tiger and the Fish” (20), an animated version of Akutagawa Prize-winning author Seiko Tanabe’s masterpiece. This work was selected for the feature-length competition and opening work of Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2021, the world’s largest anime festival.
2003, depicting the interaction between a male university student, Tsuneo, and Jose, who is lame. The romance novel “Josee, the Tiger and the Fish” was also made into a live-action movie by co-starring. In this animated film, Kotaro Tamura of the “Wolf Children’s Rain and Snow” (12) and “Noragami” series will be the first director of the animated film, and Sayaka Kuwamura of “Strobe Edge” (15) will be the scriptwriter. Bonds of “Fullmetal Alchemist” and “My Hero Academia” worked on animation production, and received attention such as receiving the Excellent Animation Work Award at the 44th Japan Academy Prize. The story is a love story by Josee (voice: Kaya Kiyohara), a girl who is lame and lives in her own world with pictures, books, and imagination, and Tsuneo (voice: Taishi Nakagawa), a college student chasing a dream. At first, they collide with each other, but their hearts gradually get closer, and eventually, Jose decides to jump out with Tsuneo into the outside world he dreamed of. It is the feat since Isao Takahata’s “The Tale of Princess Kaguya” (13) that the opening work at the film festival and the feature-length competition section were selected at the same time, and the Japanese work is the opening. In response to the election, Director Tamura said, “I think that this feeling that Jose has,” longing for the outside world “, is now common throughout the world. This film will be the opening of a historic film festival. It’s a great honor to be able to do it, “he commented with joy. At the same time, he said, “I would like to thank the people who brought the film to the big stage and pray for the success of the film festival.” In addition, this work was also released at the Busan International Film Festival last year in the animated film “Evangelion New Theatrical Version: In addition to being selected as the closing work for the first time in 13 years since “Introduction” (07), it has won the top spot among all the works released on the same day in Taiwan and has become a highly acclaimed work in the world. In the future, this work will be screened from June 11th (Friday) at the event space “Japan Pavilion Hall B” in “Tokorozawa Sakura Town”. In addition, Blu-ray & DVD will be released on August 25th (Thursday). “Jose Tora” has become an anime that brings more topics and fun. The appearance of two men and women, each with their own dreams, facing each other in a straight line will surely shake the hearts of the viewers. Sentence / Sancreo Tsubasa
