It was announced on Wednesday by GKIDS and Shout! Factory that they will be releasing Masaaki Yuasa’s Lu over the Wall anime film on Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, DVD, and digital formats on February. Those who will purchase this release contain an audio commentary, English and Japanese audio, and an interview video with the film’s director.
Lu Over the Wall is directed by Yuasa together with Reiko Yoshida. Eunyoung Choi is served as producer.
The film premiered in May 2017 in Japan and won the top “Cristal for a Feature Film” award during the Annecy International Film Festival happened last June. It also won the Silver Prize for “Best Animated Feature Film” audience award at Fantasia International Film Festival last August.
The film was screened by GKIDS in US and Canada last May and earned US$66,067 during its opening weekend.
About the Film (As Described by GKIDS):
From visionary anime auteur Masaaki Yuasa, comes a joyously hallucinogenic but family-friendly take on the classic fairy tale about a little mermaid who comes ashore to join a middle-school rock band and propel them to fame. 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 premiering in English as 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.
Source: Anime News Network