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Anime Limited Will Release Pompo: The Cinéphile in U.K. Cinemas from June 29
posted on by Andrew Osmond
Anime Limited announced that it will screen the anime film of Shogo Sugitani's Pompo: The Cinéphile (Eiga Daisuki Pompo-san) manga in Japanese with English subtitles in selected UK cinemas from Wednesday June 29, while the English dub version will be screened from Thursday June 30.
Cinema details and booking links will be given at pompofilm.co.uk and the film has been given a 12A certificate in Britain.
Pompo: The Cinéphile depicts the craft of movie-making and revolves around Joelle Davidovich "Pompo" Pomponette, a talented movie producer who looks like a girl.
Operating out of the movie capital "Nyallywood," Pompo has been shooting one B-grade entertainment flick after another that anyone would enjoy. One day, Pompo's "movie buff" assistant Gene spots a new script written by Pompo and is moved by its exquisite story. In a fit of passion, he proclaims, "I want to see this as a finished work in theaters as soon as possible!"
However, Pompo tells him, "So you shoot this film." Thus, Gene takes on his first directing gig. Meanwhile, Natalie, an ordinary girl who just arrived in town with movie actress dreams, has been discovered by Pompo …
The cast includes:
- Hiroya Shimizu as protagonist Gene Fini
- Konomi Kohara as the titular Joelle Davidovich "Pompo" Pomponett
- Rinka Ōtani as rookie actress Nathalie Woodward
- Ai Kakuma as movie star Mystia
- Akio Ohtsuka as veteran actor and A-list movie star Martin Braddock
Takayuki Hirao (The Garden of Sinners movie 5, God Eater) directed the film at CLAP. Shingo Adachi (Sword Art Online, Wagnaria!!) designed the characters. Ryoichiro Matsuo (In This Corner of the World) served as producer. Vocaloid producer Iori Kanzaki composed three vocal songs for the film. Virtual singer Kaf performs one insert song "Tatoeba" (For Example), and DUSTCELL vocalist EMA performs the film's other insert song "Hangyakusha no Bokura" (We the Rebels). In addition, Seiko Niizuma performs the film's opening number "Dance on Fire." Rookie female singer CIEL performs the film's theme song "Mado wo Akete" (Open a Window).
Sugitani, who also goes by the pen name Ningen Plamo ("Human Plastic Model"), began posting the manga on the pixiv website in April 2017. Positive word-of-mouth on social networking sites and elsewhere has since led to over 500,000 views of the manga. The manga was nominated for the 11th Manga Taisho awards in 2018. Sugitani launched a spinoff manga titled Fran: The Cinéphile (Eiga Daisuki Fran-chan NYALLYWOOD STUDIOS SERIES) on the pixiv Comic website in July 2018.
The film was slated to open in 2020 in Japan, but was delayed to a March 19, 2021 opening due to "various circumstances," and then delayed again to a June 4 2021 opening due to the spread of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
