The 23rd edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival, the top genre film festival in North America, will be held (mostly) at the Concordia Théâtre Hall from July 11 to August 1st 2019. The festival will open with Hideo Nakata latest movie, Sadako. It will also showcase over an hundred feature films & shorts in horror, sci-fi or fantasy genres and many filmmakers and actors will be attending to introduce their production — including Yamamoto Kiyoshi (Director of Brave Father Online – Our Story of Final Fantasy XIV), Yaguchi Shinobu & Kanekoa Ryon (director and producer of Dance with me), Makoto Tezuka (dir. of The Legend of the Stardust Brothers), Takahiro Umehara (dir. & writer for Moon in the hidden woods), Nao Yoshighai (retrospective), Oshiyama Kiyotaka (dir. of the short Shishigari) and Keita Amemiya (dir. of Garo and speaker of the Master Class on Wed July 31, 2019 7:00 PM at the York Amphitheatre). Tickets will be available at Concordia’s box office and online starting July 6th.

Movies from all over the world will be presented (including five from China, five from Hong Kong, twenty-four from South Korea and two from Taiwan), but here we are interested mostly in the forty-five production from Japan:

Anime

• Cencoroll Connect (2019, Atsuya Uki, 75 mins)
• The Death Vendor (2019, Jeon Jinkyu, 6 mins)
• Fluffiction (2018, Yoshiki Imazu, 7 mins)
• Ghost in the Shell: Virtual Reality Diver (2017, Hiroaki Higashi, 15 mins)
• The Girl from the Other Side (2019, Yutaro Kubo, Satomi Maiya, 10 mins)
• The House Rattler (2019, Shinobu Soejima, 6 mins)
• Human Lost (2019, Fuminori Kizaki, 109 mins, inspired by Osamu Dazai’s novel No Longer Human)
• A Japanese Boy Who Draws (2018, Masanao Kawajiri, 20 mins)
• The Moon in the Hidden Woods (2018, Umehara Takahiro, 97 mins, South Korean movie with a Japanese director)
• My Little Goat (2018, Tomoki Misato, 10 mins)
• Promare (2019, Hiroyuki Imaishi, 111 mins)
• The Relative Worlds (2019, Yuhei Sakuragi, 93 mins)
• Ride Your Wave (2019, Masaaki Yuasa, 95 mins)
• Shishigari (2019, Kiyotaka Oshiyama, 17 mins)
• Tempura (2013, Ujicha, 3 mins)
• Twilight (2019, Yutaka Yamamoto, 53 mins)
• UNK (1979, Makoto Tezuka, 15 mins)
• The Wonderland (2019, Keiichi Hara, 115 mins, adapted from Sachiko Kashiwaba’s 1988 children’s book Strange Journey From the Basement)

Live-Action

• 21st Century Girl (2019, U-ki Yamato, 120 mins, an anthology assembling 14 emerging filmmakers about the world view of young Japanese women)
• Almost a Miracle (2019, Yuya Ishii, 120 mins, based on Yuki Ando’s manga The World of Machida Kun)
• And Your Bird Can Sing (2018, Sho Miyake, 106 mins, adapted from a novella by late writer Yasushi Sato)
• Brave Father Online: Our Story of Final Fantasy XIV (2019, Teruo Noguchi, Kiyoshi Yamamoto, 114 mins)
• Chiwawa (2019, Ken Ninomiya, 104 mins)
• Dance With Me (2019, Shinobu Yaguchi, 103 mins)
• Dare To Stop Us (2018, Kazuya Shiraishi, 118 mins)
• Day and Night (2019, Michihito Fujii, 134 mins)
• The Fable (2019, Kan Eguchi, 123 mins, based on Katsuhisa Minami’s manga)
• Fly Me to the Saitama (2019, Hideki Takeuchi, 107 mins, based on Yuichi Tokunaga’s 1982 manga)
• Garo: Under the Moonbow (2019, Keita Amemiya, 106 mins)
• Gintama 2: Rules Are Made to Be Broken (2018, Yuichi Fukuda, 134 mins, based on the manga series by Hideaki Sorachi)
• Grand Bouquet (2018, Nao Yoshigai, 14 mins)
• Hard-Core (2018, Nobuhiro Yamashita, 124 mins)
• His Bad Blood (2019, Koichiro Oyama, 108 mins)
• Hottamaru Days (2015, Nao Yoshigai, 37 mins)
• The Island of Cats (2019, Mitsuaki Iwago, 103 mins, based on Nekomaki’s manga The old man and his cat)
• It Comes (2018, Tetsuya Nakashima, 135 mins, an adaptation of Ichi Sawamura’s famous novel)
• Kingdom (2019, Shinsuke Sato, 134 mins, an adaptation of Yasuhisa Hara’s novel)
• The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985, Makoto Tezuka, 100 mins, directed by Osamu Tezuka’s son)
• The Pear and the Fang (2018, Nao Yoshigai, 30 mins)
• Ratri (2019, Jeremy Rubier, 16 mins, co-production Canada/Japan/Austria/Thaïland)
• The Realm Below (2018, Souichi Umezawa, 9 mins)
• Sadako (2019, Hideo Nakata, 99 mins, another sequel to Ring)
• Stare (2019, Hirotaka Adachi, 98 mins)
• Stories Floating on the Wind (2018, Nao Yoshigai, 9 mins)
• Tokyo Ghoul ‘S‘ (2019, Kazuhiko Hiramaki, Takuya Kawasaki, 101 mins, an adaptation of the urban-horror manga by Sui Ishida)
• We Are Little Zombies (2018, Makoto Nagahisa, 120 mins)

This year there’s lots of horror and lots of shorts, many anime and a few titles to watch closely (like Human Lost, The Relative worlds, Garo, Gintama 2, and The island of cats).

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