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Hong Kong's J-Toons Festival to Screen Fate/stay Night: Heaven's Feel, Napping Princess, Blame!

The official website of the J-Toons Festival in Hong Kong announced on Wednesday that it will screen the Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. presage flower, Napping Princess, and Blame! anime films. All three movies will have their theatrical premieres in Hong Kong during the festival.

The festival will also host screenings of the Makoto Shinkai films Voices of a Distant Star, The Place Promised in our Early Days, 5 Centimeters per Second, Children Who Chase Lost Voices, and The Garden of Words. The event will also screen Mamoru Hosoda's Wolf Children and The Boy and the Beast films, Naoko Yamada's A Silent Voice film, Hideaki Anno's Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo film, and Keiichi Hara's Miss Hokusai film.

The festival will be held at the MCL Cinemas Telford from December 9 to January 4

Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. presage flower, the first part in the three-part Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel anime film project, opened at #1 at the Japanese box office in both attendance and box office earnings on October 14. The movie sold 247,509 tickets for 413,030,840 yen (about US$3.69 million) in its first two days for a per-screen average of 3,226,802 yen (US$29,000).

Tomonori Sudou (Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works, Fate/Zero animation director) is directing the films, and ufotable is animating the work. Yuki Kajiura (Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works theme song composer, Fate/Zero music and theme song composer) is composing the music. Takahiro Miura is providing the storyboards. Aimer performed the first film's theme song.

Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. lost butterfly, the second film in the trilogy, will debut in 2018.

Napping Princess opened in Japan on March 18, and ranked #9 in the Japanese box office in its opening weekend.

I.G Port's new anime studio subsidiary Signal.MD (Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note, Anime Tamago's "Colorful Ninja Iromaki" short) animated the film as its first anime film project. Kenji Kamiyama (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Moribito - Guardian of the Spirit, Eden of the East) directed the film and penned the script. Satoko Morikawa (The Cat Returns, Eden of the East, Xi Avant) designed the characters, and Shigeto Koyama (Michiko & Hatchin, Moribito - Guardian of the Spirit, Heroman) was charge of mechanical design. Yoko Shimomura (Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy XV) composed the music for the film.

Lead actress Mitsuki Takahata performed the film's theme song, a cover of The Monkees' "Daydream Believer" song.

Blame! premiered worldwide on Netflix on May 20. Hiroyuki Seshita (Ajin), who previously co-directed the anime adaptation of Nihei's Knights of Sidonia manga series, directed the film at Polygon Pictures. Nihei himself handled the film's script and character design, and also served as "creative consultant."

Nihei launched the science-fiction action story Blame! as his first manga series in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon magazine in 1997, and ended it in 2003. Tokyopop published the 10-volume manga in North America. Kodansha published a new "master's edition" of the manga in Japan in 2015 that had six volumes. Vertical is releasing this new version of the manga in English.

The manga inspired a new novel adaptation written by Tow Ubukata (Ghost in the Shell: Arise, Psycho-Pass 2 series composition) that shipped on May 26. The series inspired an anthology of short stories, written by the following science-fiction authors: Issui Ogawa (The Lord of the Sands of Time), Nozomu Kuoka (Escape Speed light novel series), Tobi Hirotaka (Autogenic Dreaming: Interview with the Columns of Clouds), Denpō Torishima (Kaikin no Tada), and Mado Nozaki (Babylon, know). The anthology shipped on May 31.