COCOLORS

Award-winning 3DCG Animation Imagines Dystopian Future

Venue: Tollywood Shimokitazawa
Most Thur, Fri, Sat, Sundays during February 3 (Sat) to March 1 (Thu), 2018 Details: below the text.
Official website: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiwowTlPLqo
Theater website: tollywood.jp
Theater website: tollywood.jp/#nowa
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=kiwowTlPLqo
Tariff:  ¥1,000

Title: コカラス (COCOLORS)
Director: Toshihisa Yokoshima (横嶋俊久)
Duration: 46 min

“Half-breed” animation studio Kamikaze Douga, specialists in blending 3D CG with 2D cel animation for many memorable commercials, promos and music videos, are finally coming to a theater near you with their unique Cocolors, which gets its first theatrical run after snagging the coveted Satoshi Kon Award for Excellence in Animation at the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal this past August.

Directed, written, storyboarded and produced by Toshihisa Yokoshima (short film Amanatsu and movies for Dragon Quest IX: Hoshizora no Mamoribito, Final Fantasy Tactics: Shishi Senso), Cocolors is the second installment in Kamikaze Douga Nishiki Studio’s ambitious, multi-director Gasoline Mask project. The title is a portmanteau of the words kokoro, Japanese for heart, and color.

Set hundreds of years after an eruption of Mt. Fuji caused a massive disaster, forcing everyone to live deep underground and to wear astronaut-style masks and protective clothing seemingly 24/7, Cocolors is essentially a dystopian tale about growing up in abject fear (any echoes of Japan’s current environmental issues are fully intended).

Kamikaze Douga has a tremendously helpful website, so let me help myself to it: In this harsh environment, two young boys named Aki and Fuyu live. They join a recovery team that ventures to the outside world — a world in which an endless rain of dark ash fills the sky, covers the earth and burns and melts away human flesh. What will they find there, if they can make it safely to the surface…?

The website also highlights the creation of the film’s GC and the unusual use of a traditional Japanese printmaking technique for every detail, from the character expression to the background art. And although subtitles are available in an amazingly world-embracing six different languages (English, German, French, Chinese, Korean, Japanese), the English subs will be featured at Tollywood’s screenings.

Screening schedule:
February 3 (Sat) , 4 (Sun), 2018: 20:00
February 8 (Thu), 10 (Sat) , 11 (Sun), 12 (Mon), 17 (Sat) , 18 (Sun), 24 (Sat) , 25 (Sun), 2018: 18:00
February 15 (Thu), 22 (Thu), 3/1 (Thu), 2018: 19:00

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