Tokyo International Film Festival to Screen 26 Gundam Films
On September 10, the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival announced the featured lineup for the "Mobile Suit Gundam" screening event "THE WORLD OF GUNDAM".
This animated feature is a continuation of "The World of Hideaki Anno" which was screened last year. This will be the first time the festival has had a feature which focused on a single animation series. 26 works were selected from more than 40 films, OVAs, and TV series from the Gundam series, all of which have their avid fans.
"Mobile Suit Gundam", which was created in 1979 as an animated television series by the animation studio Sunrise with Yoshiyuki Tomino as the lead director, sets in an era where intergalactic wars run rampant. The work is of a grand scale, with various youths waging war and participating in strenuous battles in their Mobile Suits.
The scheduled lineup will be enjoyed by all generations and nationalities, and will encompass the entire series, from its inception all the way to its latest installment. At the same time, some films have also been selected which will ease newcomers into the world of Gundam.
The screening's centerpiece is "Ring of Gundam", in its first screening in 6 years since its premier at the "Big Expo" in 2009, which commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Gundam Series. Also, it's the first time screening at the theater.
Tokyo International Film Festival is scheduled to be held from October 22 to October 31, 2015.
26 films List:
・MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM II SOLDIERS OF SORROW (1981)
・MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM III ENCOUNTERS IN SPACE (1982)
・MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM CHAR’S COUNTERATTACK (1988)
・MOBILE SUIT SD GUNDAM (1988)
・MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM F91 (1991)
・MUSHA KNIGHT COMMANDO: SD GUNDAM SCRAMBLE (1991)
・MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM: THE 08TH MS TEAM MILLER’S REPORT (1998)
・NEW MOBILE REPORT GUNDAM WING ENDLESS WALTZ SPECIAL EDITION (1998)
・TURN A GUNDAM I EARTH LIGHT (2002)
・TURN A GUNDAM II MOON BUTTERFLY (2002)
・GUNDAM EVOLVE../7 XXXG-00W0 WING GUNDAM ZERO (2004)
・MOBILE SUIT Z GUNDAM A NEW TRANSLATION – HEIRS TO THE STARS (2005)
・MOBILE SUIT Z GUNDAM A NEW TRANSLATION – LOVERS (2005)
・MOBILE SUIT Z GUNDAM A NEW TRANSLATION – LOVE IS THE PULSE OF THE STARS (2006)
・RING OF GUNDAM (2009)
・MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM 00 THE MOVIE -A WAKENING OF THE TRAILBLAZER- (2010)
・MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM UNICORN episode1 DAY OF THE UNICORN (2010)
・MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM UNICORN episode 2 THE SECOND COMING OF CHAR (2010)
・MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM UNICORN episode 3 THE GHOST OF LAPLACE (2011)
・MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM UNICORN episode 4 AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GRAVITY WELL (2011)
・MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM UNICORN episode 5 BLACK UNICORN (2012)
・MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM UNICORN episode 6 TWO WORLDS, TWO TOMORROWS (2013)
・MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM UNICORN episode 7 OVER THE RAINBOW (2014)
・GUNDAM RECONGUISTA IN G (2014)
・MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM: THE ORIGIN I BLUE-EYED CASVAL (2015)
