Cho Kaguya-hime Talk Show Looks Back at a Four-Month One-Week Run
The revival screenings and the packed talk show are the measurable afterlife of a film that was meant to be a one-week theatrical event, and the panel is where the people who made it account for that extension in public.
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At Machi Asobi vol.31 in Tokushima on October 17, Anna Nagase and Studio Colorido animation producer Kazuma Momohara discussed Cho Kaguya-hime!. The Netflix film topped Netflix Japan's daily movie top 10 the day after its January debut, then opened in 19 theaters for a planned week in February and ran four months, ending in June. A special-format revival began September 18.
The panel ran a full hour at the Shimachi Higashi Park stage, with emcee Yoshiki Ota, who wrote the official guidebook, steering the chronology. Momohara said director Seigo Yamashita was visibly nervous on the streaming day and that he had never seen that from him before.
The theatrical run began February 20 in 19 theaters and filled nearly every seat, reaching fifth place in the weekend rankings before the run was extended and more venues were added. Nagase said she and co-stars Yuuko Natsuyoshi and Saori Hayami had treated the planned week as a one-time party.
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