From the beginning of its Work in Progress session at Annecy’s Pierre Lamy Theatre, directors Sunao Katabuchi and Chie Uratani’s love of history couldn’t be clearer. The session, based around their upcoming film “The Mourning Children: Nagiko and the Girls Wearing Tsurubami Black,” almost immediately dived into discussing the immense period detail of their work.
Producer and MAPPA CEO Manabu Otsuka called the production “very culturally loaded.” He continued to say that the formation of the studio Contrail to make the film helped with “the need to create a space for this historical research,” allowing them to “dig deep.” Otsuka also highlighted the number of young artists who
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