The Mourning Children: Nagiko and the Girls Wearing Tsurubami Black｜Teaser 1

The first teaser for THE MOURNING CHILDREN: Nagiko and the Girls Wearing Tsurubami Black Director・Original Screenplay: Katabuchi Sunao Co-Director: Uratani Chie Animation Director: Ando Masashi Art Director: Kaneko Yuji Music: Senju Akira Producer: Otsuka Manabu Production: CONTRAIL ＜INTRODUCTION＞ The film follows Kyoto during the Heian period(the 10th century) in Japan. Tens of thousands dead, gutters filled with corpses, children abandoned in the mountains, and groups of wild dogs vigilantly watching outside the city. The elegant image of the Heian period has been shown in many literary and artistic works. However, Katabuchi’s new work takes us back to Kyoto a thousand years ago, when the city was shrouded in darkness due to repeated epidemics of plague. ・・・・・・ Sunao Katabuchi, who won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2017 Annecy International Animation Film Festival for “In