GKIDS, the Academy Award-winning producer and distributor introduced a multi-territory acquisition of The Colours Inside (Japanese title: Kiminoiro) which is directed by Naoko Yamada (A Silent Voice), with manufacturing from studio Science SARU (Scott Pilgrim Takes Off).
The movie can have its world premiere in competitors on the 2024 Annecy Worldwide Animated Movie Competition. GKIDS and Anime Ltd. will theatrically launch the movie in each its authentic Japanese language and a brand new English-dubbed model this winter, and GKIDS will qualify the movie for 2024-25 awards consideration. The movie will probably be domestically launched in Japan on August thirtieth.
The Colours Inside follows Totsuko, a highschool pupil with the power to see the ‘colours’ of others. Colours of bliss, pleasure, and serenity, plus a shade she treasures as her favourite. Kimi, a classmate at her faculty, provides off probably the most lovely shade of all. Though she doesn’t play an instrument, Totsuko varieties a band with Kimi and Rui, a quiet music fanatic they meet at a used bookstore in a far nook of city. As they follow at an previous church on a distant island, music brings them collectively, forming friendships and stirring affections. Will they uncover their true ‘colours’?
Producer Genki Kawamura’s Story inc. (Your Identify, Weathering With You, Suzume), is moreover connected to the movie for planning and producing. Reiko Yoshida (Experience Your Wave) penned the script, and longtime Science SARU collaborator Kensuke Ushio (Chainsaw Man) composed the rating. Frequent Science SARU collaborator Takashi Kojima, who most not too long ago labored with director Yamada on The Heike Story, joined the manufacturing as character designer and animation director.
“We’ve got lengthy admired Naoko Yamada and her skill to create dazzling, emotional tales out of the on a regular basis issues of youngsters,” stated GKIDS president David Jesteadt. “The Colours Inside is her most lovely movie but, and we’re proud to accomplice with our associates at Anime Ltd. on one other quickly to be traditional from Science SARU and Story inc., who’re chargeable for a number of the finest anime productions of this new century.”
“The partnership and coordination on the worldwide launch of The Colours Inside indicators a brand new strategy to movie promotion: working collectively on a singular world imaginative and prescient while using our respective native expertise to maximise the impression of the movie. Working in unison like this permits all of us to offer the very best assist for proficient directorial voices,” stated Anime Ltd. CEO Andrew Partridge. ”On a private stage, I’ve labored carefully with selling Naoko Yamada’s movies earlier than I even based Anime Ltd. – beginning together with her debut function movie as part of Scotland Loves Anime. So it’s an actual pleasure to be bringing her newest work to as broad an viewers as potential in Europe.”
