Bodacious Space Pirates, Beelzebub, PERSON4: don’t miss the screenings by Kazé. To celebrate the presence of the festival Manga guest of honor, Naoki URASAWA, the film 20th Century Boys is also showed!

During the whole festival,
in vidéo room #2 and on the Japan Expo stage

 

20th Century Boys

 

Chapitre 1

1969. Kenji and his friends spend their summer holiday making up a catastrophic story in their prediction notebook. In those times, Kenji wanted to be a rock star and save humanity.

1997. Kenji helps his mother in the store and babysits his niece. He is reminded of his childhood dreams when the police investigate about a mysterious organization whose symbol is the same as the one of the prediction notebook. All the clues lead to a sect whose chief is being called AMI.

December 31, 2000. The countdown has started: the end of the world is getting close. Who will save humanity?

© 1999, 2006 Naoki Urasawa, Studio Nuts/Shogakukan
© 2008 20th Century Boys Film Partners

Chapitre 2

2015. 15 years have passed since AMI’s bloody New Year’s Day, following Kenji and his friends’ prediction notebook. The official story holds Kenji and his friends responsible, whereas AMI is adored as the savior. He predicts the end of humanity: only those who believe in him will be saved.

After years searching, a new prediction notebook is found, describing, among others, this event: “In 2015, in a Shinjuku church, a savior will rise for justice and will be shot”.

© 1999, 2006 Naoki Urasawa, Studio Nuts/Shogakukan
© 2009 “20th Century Boys” Film Partners

 

Bodacious Space Pirates

 

In a far away galaxy, Marika discovers that her recently deceased father was the captain of Bentenmaru, pirate spaceship.

When she learns that she is the only one who can succeed him, a lifetime adventure is starting. Can a young girl lead a team of pirates and face the dangers of space?

© 2011 Yuichi Sasamoto/Asahi Shimbun Publications・Project Mo-retsu

 

PERSON4

 

Yû Narukami leaves her childhood city to live with her uncle in the country town of Inaba. That’s where Yû starts a new life.

This quietness is disrupted when the dead body of a TV hostess is found hanging from a TV aerial, as some mysterious mist is invading the town. With low voices, young people start telling rumors about a strange phenomenon: the “Midnight Channel”.

© Index Corporation/P4A Committee

 

Beelzebub

 

Oga, called the raving lunatic, is the terror of Ishiyama, one of the worst ill-famed highschool of Japan. Someday, he saves a mustached giant who lets out a new-born… but this baby turns out to be the devil’s son sent on Earth to destroy humanity.

As he doesn’t want to stay with this kid, the young mantries to get rid of it...

© RYUHEI TAMURA/SHUEISHA-BEELZEBUB PROJECT