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Masaaki Yuasa’s The Night is Short, Walk on Girl was previously a Japan Cuts Film Festival selection in 2018. The anime film is a Tomihiko Morimi adaptation and was originally published in English by Yen Press in 2019.
The film screening will take place on Friday, June 17 at 7:00 pm at Japan Society NYC. Which is located at 333 E 47th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenue, New York, NY 10017.
Tickets are listed as $15 for non-Japan Society members, $12 for students and seniors, and $5 for all Japan Society members.
Friday, June 17, 2022 at 7:00 PM
Dir. Masaaki Yuasa, 2017, 93 min., DCP, color, in Japanese with English subtitles. With Gen Hoshino, Kana Hanazawa, Hiroshi Kamiya, Ryuji Akiyama.
‘The Night is Short, Walk on Girl’ Movie SYNOPSIS:
“Spunky college student Otome embarks on a booze-soaked romp through Kyoto in search of a book from her childhood.
As the night stretches on for what seems like years, her quest takes on epic, hallucinatory proportions—starring a fanged god of used books, a guerilla theater troupe, a committee of crab-dancing philosophers, and love-inducing carp that fall from the sky.
Meanwhile, an upperclassman at her university (voiced by pop star Gen Hoshino) undergoes a series of equally improbable misadventures in his attempts to win her heart.
Adapted from the award-winning novel by Tomihiko Morimi, acclaimed animation director Masaaki Yuasa’s The Night is Short, Walk on Girl is a delightful trip down the rabbit hole into questions of fate and interconnectedness, rendered in an astounding visual style.”
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Manhattan’s Japan Society was first founded on May 19, 1907.
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