What You Need to Know:
- Just when you thought the summer season couldn"t get any hotter we"ve got something to really heat things up for anime movie fans! GKIDS" newest film, Masaaki Yuasa"s Lu Over the Wall, opens on May 11th! For those who don"t know, GKIDS is an independent film distributor focused solely on animation, including 10 Academy Award-nominated films and the entire Studio Ghibli library.
- The film is a joyously hallucinogenic and family-friendly take on the classic fairy tale about a little mermaid who comes ashore to join a rock band and propel them to fame. We"ll provide a much more detailed synopsis below, but to see more of the film in action then be sure to watch the beautiful trailer!
Source: Official Press Release
Synopsis
Kai is talented but adrift, spending his days sulking in a small fishing village after his family moves from Tokyo. His only joy is uploading songs he writes to the internet. When his classmates invite him to play keyboard in their band, their practice sessions bring an unexpected guest: Lu, a young mermaid whose fins turn to feet when she hears the beats, and whose singing causes humans to compulsively dance – whether they want to or not.
As Kai spends more time with Lu, he finds he is able to tell her what he is really thinking, and a bond begins to form. But since ancient times, the people in the village have believed that mermaids bring disaster and soon there is trouble between Lu and the townspeople, putting the town in grave danger. Winner of the Grand Prize at the prestigious Annecy Animation Festival and an official selection of Sundance 2018, Lu Over the Wall is a toe-tapping, feel-good demonstration of Yuasa’s genre-mixing mastery that will leave you humming long after you leave the theater.
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