screening:

Cosplay Movie Night 2

3 movies, 1 marathon.

29 Aug 2006

On this night we had a selection of the most inspiring anime from Japan. Three films were shown in our exhibition space, each with a different theme.

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Cosplay Complex at Mediamatic - Image taken from here

Programme:

- XXXHOLiC, Tsutomu Mizushima (JAP 2005, 60 min)
The witch Yûko receives an invitation for the opening of an auction from a mysterious unknown sender. Likewise, fanatical collectors are summoned to an old mansion whose owner doesn't make an appearance. One after another, each collector disappears and a number of other strange occurrences happen during the night...

- PET SHOP of HORRORS (one episode), Toshio Hirata (JAP, 25 min)
Count D, a quite interesting pet shop owner from an area called Chinatown, sells rare and hard to come by pets to people longing for something special, but with each sale comes a contract...
Pet Shop of Horrors is made up of four episodes, each telling an individual tale about a customer of Count D's pet shop.

- COSPLAY COMPLEX (one episode), Shinichirou Kimura (JAP 2001, 30 min)
Chako and her friends are members of the struggling club the Cosplay Association at East Oizuka Academy that dreams of going all the way to the Cosplay World Series. Can these girls, with the help of a new member and a magic fairy get well on the way to becoming Cosplay champions.