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I've noticed that many people don't know the film is Nasu: Andalusia no Natsu (or Nasu: Summer in Andalusia as it's called in English), so I thought I'd open a thread about it. It was the first Japanese animation film ever to be selected for the Cannes Film Festival. All though it's a Madhouse anime, it's sort of a Ghibli film because the director Kitaro Kosaka is one of the animators of Studio Ghibli and has worked on Ghibli films like (as I already stated above):
- Howl's Moving Castle (as animation director!)
- Mononoke Hime (as animation supervisor!)
- Spirited Away (as animator supervisor!)
- Laputa: Castle in the Sky (as key animator)
- Grave of the Fireflies (as key animator)
- Pom Poko (as key animator)
DON'T BE STUPID TO IGNORE THIS FILM (even though it isn't available anywhere with English subs)! As you see director Kitaro Kosaka played very important roles in the making of Ghibli films and even was animation director for Howl's so this guy will be one of the persons which will be important in the future of Ghibli when Miyazaki and Takahata really quit working.
Anyway, check out these links....
The official Japanese website:
http://www.nasu-summer.com/
And a short clip:
http://www.jcmediaworks.com/av/trailers/nasu.wmv
A review and an interview (read it!) with the director:
- review
- interview Kitaro Kosaka
Here's some pics of my Japanese Nasu: Andalusia no Natsu Collector's Edition, which is actually a limited edition. As you can see it comes with a 2-disc digipack, a 6 page booklet and a bigger box which has a t-shirt of the film in it, but I'm gonna keep it sealed (for now).
The French of course already have a French subbed release of this film. At the beginning of October the French have released a pretty nice DVD of this film. I already have the Japanese LE, but the French release is very nice as well (note: again no English subs). Why can't they just release an English edition???
Above a picture of the DVD set which contains 2 DVD's, one OST CD and a 40 page book. The two DVD's and the OST are placed in a digipack with four shutters nicely illustrated. The interior presents the illustration of the bar of Hernandez while the shutters are decorated with sketch and of images of animates. The digipack is placed in a sleeve decorated with a superb illustration of Pepe in front of Ciocci and Zamenhoff. There is also right to a booklet of 40 pages abundantly illustrated which proposes an introduction to work, a presentation of the characters, interviews of staff and actors, a short presentation of the Madhouse studio, infos on the three large lathes cyclists, a small lexicon and the detail of the tracks of the OST.
The 2 disc contains the following features:
an animation storyboard of all film, on the Japanese or French sound track;
an interview in two parts of the director Kitaro Kosaka (6' 15);
an interview in two parts of the principal actors and the director (26' 55);
four Japanese trailers;
a clip on the credits of end in hidden no-claims bonus (3' 03);
a gallery of 32 sketches of production to make ravel manually (check the picture below  ).
Some pics from the film. The first one kinda reminds me of Jiji from Kiki's Delivery Service:
 
 
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11.12.2005, 05:21 AM
