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Ghibliotheque Hosts Present London Screening of Memories on Wednesday

Tickets are still available for a London screening of the anthology science-fiction film Memories on Wednesday July 12 at 8.45 p.m. The screening will be in Japanese with subtitles, and will be introduced by Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham, the presenters of the Ghibliotheque podcast. The Prince Charles Cinema is in Leicester Square.

Memories (pictured right) is described on the cinema's website as follows:

"From the creator Akira, Katsuhiro Ōtomo, come three unforgettable animated tales… This 1995 anthology movie brought together some of the anime industry's best and brightest to tell three stylistically diverse stories, all drawing inspiration from the work of Katsuhiro Ōtomo. A collaboration between Studio 4°C and Madhouse, Memories is full of cinematic surprises, from the haunting deep-space ghost story of its opening segment Magnetic Rose, directed by Kōji Morimoto (The Animatrix, Mind Game) with a script, layouts and background designs from rising star Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Paprika), to the knockabout human-bioweapon comedy of Stink Bomb from veteran animator Tensai Okamura (My Neighbour Totoro, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Wolf's Rain), to the formally audacious final segment, the dystopian, steampunk-style satire Cannon Fodder, directed by Otomo himself."

It will be followed on August 16 by a screening of the 1999 film Jin-Roh - The Wolf Brigade at the same venue.