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28 We Love AnimeLAPUTA: CASTLE IN THE SKYWe Love AnimeEvery year there are a slew of animefilms released onto DVD or Blu-Ray thatnever get a chance to be shown on thebig screen. So here at Scotland LovesAnimation, we’ve partnered up withour friends at Manga Entertainment,Kazé, Optimum Releasing and BeezEntertainment to bring you the aselection of the biggest films coming outin the next 12 months to the big screenacross the UK and Ireland. So catchthem in cinemas while you can!We Love Anime is proudly sponsoredby Uniqlo – anyone who buys ticketsto all four films will get a goodie bagcontaining a Uniqlo Naruto t-shirtamong other things...KING OF THORNLaputa: Castle in the SkyTenku no Shiro LaputaSat 26 Mar at 1.00pmHayao Miyazaki • Japan 1986 • 2h4m • 35mmJapanese with English subtitlesPG – Contains mild violence and perilWith the voices of Mayumi Tanaka, Keiko Yokozawa, Kotoe Hatsui,Minori Terada, Fujio Tokita.An aerial shoot-out and a girl floating from the sky formthe starting point for this rollercoaster adventure in a 19thcentury fantasy world. Two children set off on a hazardoustreasure hunt for the legendary flying castle Laputa. Alsochasing the treasure are a gang of airborne pirates and asinister government agent. The spectacular aerial battlesand warrior robots never obscure the film’s essentialinnocence.King of ThornIbara no OSat 26 Mar at 6.10pmKazuyoshi Katayama • Japan 2009 • 1h50m • DigibetaJapanese with English subtitles • 12AWith the voices of Sendai Eri, Kana Hanazawa, Toshiyuki Morikawa,Sayaka Ohara, Akiko Yajima.A mysterious virus, nicknamed Medusa, is spreadingaround Japan, turning its victims into stone. Given theimpossibility of finding an immediate cure, the governmentopts for cryopreserving a select group of patients until theycome up with a solution. Based on Yuji Iwahara’s manga bythe same name, King of Thorn sets animated images in asensational cross between Aliens and Lost. Enigmatic andhighly explosive.SUMMER WARSSummer WarsSama wozuSun 27 Mar at 3.30pmMamoru Hosoda • Japan 2009 • 1h54m • Digital projectionJapanese with English subtitles • 12AWith the voices of Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nanami Sakuraba, SumikoFuji, Ayumu Saito, Yoji Tanaka.When timid eleventh-grader and math genius Kenji Koisois asked by older student and secret crush Natsuki to comewith her to her family’s Nagano home for a summer job, heagrees without hesitation. Natsuki’s family, the Jinnouchiclan, dates back to the Muromachi era, and they’ve allcome together to celebrate the 90th birthday of the spunkymatriarch of the family, Sakae. That’s when Kenji discovershis ‘summer job’ is to pretend to be Natsuki’s fiancéand dance with her at the birthday celebration. As Kenjiattempts to keep up with Natsuki’s act around her family,he receives a strange math problem on his cell phonewhich, being a math genius, he can’t resist solving. As itturns out, the solution to the mysterious equation causes ahijacking of the social networking site through which mostof the world’s social and business traffic flows. It’s up toKenji and his new fake family to put reality back in order.