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Eleven Arts to Screen 1st Haikara-San: Here Comes Miss Modern Film in U.S. in June
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Haikara-san ga Tōru Kōhen: Hana no Tōkyō Dai Roman, is scheduled for this fall. The screenings will be in Japanese with English subtitles.
Eleven Arts' website for the anime currently lists a June 8 screening for Bloomfield, Illinois, a June 10 screening for Larkspur, California, and a June 17 screening for San Francisco.
Anime Expo last July that it plans to screen the Haikara-san ga Tooru films in the United States with English subtitles.
opens in Japan this fall. The film was originally slated to open this spring.
The story is set in Tokyo in the Taishō era (1912-1926). The story follows Benio "Haikara-san" Hanamura, who lost her mother when she was very young and has been raised by her father, a high-ranking official in the Japanese army. As a result, she has grown into a tomboy — contrary to traditional Japanese notions of femininity, she studies kendo, drinks sake, dresses in often outlandish-looking Western fashions instead of the traditional kimono, and is not as interested in housework as she is in literature. She also rejects the idea of arranged marriages and believes in a woman's right to a career and to marry for love.
Haikara-san's best friends are the beautiful Tamaki, who is much more feminine than Haikara-san but equally interested in women's rights, and Ranmaru, a young man who was raised to play female roles in the kabuki theater and as a result has acquired very effeminate mannerisms. Haikara-san's betrothed is Shinobu Ijūin, a second lieutenant in the army.
Little Witch Academia) is composing the music. Nippon Animation is in charge of animation production.
The all-female performed a musical adaptation of the manga last October.
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