From February 27 to April 5, the special Montreal screenings of Japanese animation from 1924 to 1952 will feature 53 films in 16mm and 35mm, including one feature - Japan's first - Momotaru, The God Soldier of the Seas. National Film Center/Museum of Modern Art of Tokyo curator Akira Tochigi will be in town to inaugurate the event and will lead a conference on February 29 on early Japanese animation.
A full schedule is available on the CQ website (French only), and Facebook, with a sampling of the shorts. As of this week, a bilingual program for the retrospective is available at the Cinematheque.
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