April 16: Cherry Blossom Anime at American Art Museum

April 16, 2016

Cherry Blossom Anime: "Miss Hokusai" Saturday, April 16, 1 pm This screening is held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium. Watch the trailer.  Katsushika Hokusai is one of the most famous Japanese artists. His woodblock print The Great Wave off Kanagawa and series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (both of which have been exhibited in the Freer|Sackler) are iconic the world over. Few people know, however, that Hokusai had a talented daughter, O-ei, who sometimes collaborated with…

Cherry Blossom Anime: "From Up on Poppy Hill" Saturday, April 16, 3 pm This screening is held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium. Watch the trailer.  Written by the legendary founder of Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away), and directed by Goro Miyazaki, From Up on Poppy Hill marks the first feature film collaboration between this father and son. The results are stunning: a pure, nuanced, and heartfelt film that signals yet another triumph for the esteemed studio. Set in 1963,…

 

Cherry Blossom Anime: "A Letter to Momo"

Saturday, April 16, 5 pm

This screening is held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium. Watch the trailer. From the creators of Ghost in the Shell comes a wonderfully expressive and beautifully animated tale that combines bursts of whimsy and humor with deeply felt emotion. The last time Momo saw her father they had a fight; now, all she has left to remember him is an incomplete letter he wrote, penned with the words "Dear Momo" but nothing…