On February 9th, Japan’s biggest International Children’s Film Festival, “Tokyo Kinder Film Festival” held a screening event with LIVE German voice-over for “Animation” which Japan is proud of as a culture. The festival was held during the term of “Berlin International Film Festival” at a multi-purpose hall of Japanese Embassy in Germany. The newest Japanese animations and the masterpiece “3000 Leagues in Search of Mother”which is the collaboration of two Japanese famous producers who are leading the animation world in Japan, Takahata and Miyazaki will be screened. Films are LIVE dubbed in German by German voice actors during the screening. There is also a workshop related to animation held. This event is not only for watching, but also to participate and experience Japanese culture.
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■Date: Feb/09/2014 (sun)
Number of Audience ２１３ （Full）
■Place: Japanese Embassy Multi-purpose hall（capacity：150）
■Admission Fee: Free (Application required), seats are first come first serve based.
■Host: General incorporated association Tokyo Kinder Film, Embassy of Japan In Germany
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◎Program A (11:00 ~ 12:00 Age 3 ~ ) 　Number of Audience：１１１
Japanese newest animation and world’s famous films
Recommended program for kids’ cinema debut
“KOMANEKO-First Step” (Japan/5min)／”An acorn’s Adventure” (Latvia/10min)
“Floyd the Android” (USA/4min)／”Koma and Radibo” (Japan/9min)
“The Forgotten Toys” (UK/25min)
★In Japanese and German Live voice-over
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The place was filled with kids from babies on strollers and 10 years old children both Japanese and German. Japanese animation, “Komaneko” made audience laugh. Also, the voice actor LIVE dubbed the 25 minutes long film, “The Forgotten Toys”. It seemed even little kids like 2 or 3 years old were focusing on watching those films, and enjoyed our Japanese film festival.
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◎Program B：（14：00～15：00　Age 5～）　らNumber of Audience：１０２
From new ones to the masterpieces！Program of enjoying Japanese animation masterpieces!
“3000 Leagues in Search of Mother”Director: Isao Takahata, Scene Setting: Hayao Miyazaki　★Live voice-over
“A Dog of Flanders” (Japan/25min) Director: Yoshio Kuroda　★In Japanese and German Live voice-over
“KOMANEKO-First Step” (Japan/5min)
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The program to enjoy the famous Japanese films. We could see that both parents and children were being emotional and crying by watching “A Dog of Flanders.” Also, from the film “3000 Leagues in Search of Mother,” they were laughing but at the same time, it was impressive how seriously they were focusing on that film.
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Guest：Workshop　instructress：Michiko Tachimoto（Picture book writer）、Tomoichiro Nagao（Animator）　Participants：１２
Let’s create the kinder film festival original character black cat “Kineko” together !
Workshop held at the same time（12:30～13:30）
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Kids who are age between 2 and 7 participated this workshop. Not only kids, their parents were also trying to create their original “Kineko” together. Once they were done, they wore those Kineko’s headwear and tales, and a lot of them kept watching the films with those after the workshop.