-New!-Kakurenbo DVD will be released in North America!!!(16th September, 2005)

"KAKURENBO" DVD will be released in North America on October 11th, 2005

The DVD will be released from Central Park Media.

"KAKURENBO" DVD advance review at Active Anime.
Theatre Trailer movie UP!!!(26th April, 2005)
"KAKURENBO" will be released at Shibuya Rise X!!

Theatre: Rise X in Shibuya, late night screening (every night from 9:40 p.m.)

Schedule: One week from 23rd April to 29th, 2005 (one screening each night)

Length: 24 minutes

Ticket: 600yen (on day-of-screening ticket)

On the first day, two members of YAMATOWORKS and Mr. Sugiyama, the president of Digital Hollywood,

will do a talk session after the screening! Please enjoy the session, which will also show the making of this film.
"KAKURENBO"at "Planet Cinema Festival in Osaka"(10th February, 2005)

"KAKURENBO" will be screened for three days from 25th February, 2005 to 27th at "Planet Cinema Festival"

in Osaka. Morita and Sajiki will attend and have a talk session. For more information,

please check the official site.

Location: Planet Station

Date: 27th February, 2005

OPEN: 12:30p.m. SCREENING: 1:00p.m.
Event, screening information
Screening at "Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival" an event in France (1st February, 2005)

On 3rd February, 2005, "Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival", the worldfs biggest short film

festival is held in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne Region, France. "KAKURENBO" will be released in

"openArt short JAPAN/WORLD" section.

The website of openArt reports the festival. >>>
"http://www.open-art.tv/news/fes/clermont.html"

Location: Clermont-Ferrand, France

Date: 3rd February from 2:00 p.m.
"KAKURENBO" is selected as Jury Recommended Works at Japan Media Arts Festival!(18th December,2004)

"KAKURENBO" is selected as Jury Recommended Works of Animation Division

at 2004 (8th) Annual Japan Media Arts Festival.This festival is "a contest in

which we praise creative media art works utilizing the latest expression technology".

This time 294 works were applied for the animation division, and out of them "KAKURENBO"

was selected as Jury Recommended Works.

"Hidamari no Shi" by Kamikaze Douga was also selected as Jury Recommended Works.
Event, screening information Screening at "Cineasia" an event in Germany (30th November, 2004)

"Cineasia", a visual event that introduces Asian media works, will be held for

three days from 10th December 2004 to 12th in Koln, Germany. There will be

a screening of "KAKURENBO"in the event. This is the first screening in Europe,

following the well-received screening in Canada and New York.

Location: Filmhaus Kino Koln

Date: 10th December from 6:00 p.m.
Event, screening information Screening at "e NerGy", an event in New York (17th November, 2004)

"eNerGy", an event that introduces Japanese animation and games, will be held from

19th November, 2004 to 21st. There will be a screening of "KAKURENBO".It will be screened at

the "ANIME MOVIE: GIANTS OF 2004" section, which introduces remarkable works of 2004.

Location: Tribeca Performing Arts Center

Date: 20th November from 5:00 p.m.
Event, screening information (13th October, 2004)
Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema

This will be the premiere overseas screening of "KAKURENBO" at 4th annual Waterloo Festival

for Animated Cinema, an animation festival which is held in Waterloo, Canada. Staff from YAMATOWORKS

will attend the festival as special guests.

Date: From 27th October to 30th

Location: Waterloo, CANADA
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TOKYO From 1st October to 3rd, 2004 At Aoyama Spiral

Screening of "KAKURENBO" in "J-STAR" section.

On 2nd October, the staff from YAMATOWORKS will attend the screening from 7:00 p.m.

SAPPORO From 8th October to 10th, 2004 At Urban Hall (8th),

Event space Edit (9th and 10th) Screening in "J-STAR" section.

FUKUOKA From 16th October to 17th, 2004

At Daimyo MK Hall. Screening in "J-STAR" section.
Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival

From 14th October (Thu) to 17th (Sun), 2004 At Shinjuku MILANO

There will be a screening of "KAKURENBO" from 10:00 a.m. on 17th (Sun). This is the special

screening of "KAKURENBO" in the "Surprises" section of digital short award "600sec".

On the day, the staff from YAMATOWORKS will attend the screening.