Ride Your Wave, Millennium Actress and Violet Evergarden To Receive Limited Cinematic Screenings in the UK

Anime Limited have announced that Satoshi Kon’s classic film Millennium Actress will receive a new 4K remastered screening in March as part of the Glasgow Film fest while Masaaki Yuasa’s feature-length-film Ride Your Wave will be screened in selective cinemas around the UK later this month as part of the Japanese Foundation Film Programme. In addition Kyoto Animation’s feature-length-film Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll will also be available at Glasgow Film Fest with a special Q&A with Yui Ishikawa, the voice of Violet int he film.

Millennium Actress [2nd & 3rd March 2020 – Glasgow Film Fest]:
Satoshi Kon’s classic mind-bending journey through the life and career of a reclusive former actress gets a new 4K remastered presentation. A movie studio is being torn down, and TV interviewer Genya Tachibana has tracked down its most famous star, Chiyoko Fujiwara, who has been a recluse since she left acting some thirty years ago. Tachibana delivers a key to her, and it causes her to reflect on her career; as she’s telling the story, Tachibana and his long-suffering cameraman are drawn into her story as an actress, the decades spent acting across various genres and eras.

Ride Your Wave [13th & 16th February 2020 – Bristol, Leicester, London, Sheffield]:
Romance transcends earthly bonds in this fantastic and offbeat new anime from the director of Lu Over the Wall. After the firefighter boyfriend of Hinako – a surf loving college student – loses his life at sea, she discovers she can summon him back in any watery surface by singing a song they both loved nearby.

But can the two really remain in love like this forever? Or is something else motivating her boyfriend’s sudden reappearance?

Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll [1st March 2020 – Glasgow Film Fest]:
An all-new story following on from the stunning and emotional animated masterpiece from Kyoto Animation, Violet Evergarden. Isabella, the heir to a noble house, attends a school for well-groomed young women under a ‘contract’ with her father. To her, this beautiful place where white camellias bloom is nothing more than a prison. Having resigned all hope and expectations for her future, Isabella meets her new manners teacher, Violet Evergarden.

Tickets for each film are now available to book online through the respective websites.