Short and highly emotional movie promises to reach us soon.
Summary:
Garden of Remembrance is directed by Naoko Yamada (director behind A Silent Voice).
It first aired on a festival in November 2022, and wasn’t available since.
The newly released trailer promises us a 2024 release.
We hope for a theatrical release alongside Naoko Yamada’s another promising project.
Back in 2020, Naoko Yamada — the director behind some of our most favorite anime like K-On!, Tamako Market and A Silent Voice (Koe no Katachi) — left Kyoto Animation to join Science SARU (you know, the studio behind Devilman: Crybaby, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! (Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!) and Yurei Deko). Since then, we’ve already seen her as the director for Heike Monogatari and Modern Love Tokyo: He's Playing Our Song (Modern Love Tokyo: Kare ga Kanaderu Futari no Shirabe).
And yet, there’s still one of her works only the luckiest of us have seen so far.
Garden of Remembrance
In November 2022, Scotland Loves Anime festival held the first (and so far, the only) screening of Garden of Remembrance — a short 18 minutes long film directed by Naoko Yamada, with the music score provided by Lovely Summer-Chan (aka Aika Imaizumi). The movie is quite avant garde, as it has no dialogue, and delves into the psychological subject of its main character coping with the feelings of loss.
It’s also avant garde in a sense that it’s already been a year, and despite Garden of Remembrance being a finished work, it hasn’t been available anywhere since that festival — though it will soon be, as on November 18th, we’ve finally received a teaser trailer:
What to expect?
Naoko Yamada is a phenomenal director, able to turn even such a simple premise as “cute girls eating cake and playing music” into a captivating and heartwarming story. And her soft touch can also be seen through the trailer. And since the Garden of Remembrance promises us a deeply psychological story delving into feelings of loss and how they affect our daily lives, we expect to cry. A lot.
At this moment, Garden of Remembrance is expected to be released in 2024. There’s no further information on the exact date, nor in what format it will be available — though honestly, we hope for a theatrical release alongside Naoko Yamada’s other yet to be aired movie Your Color (Kimi no Iro) — a story about a girl who can see the color of people’s hearts (and does everything she can to keep them undarkened) starting a band with another girl with beautifully colored heart and a boy who loves music.
Given these stories sharing a director and their love of music, it’d be a fantastic anime duo to go to the movies for.
Short and highly emotional movie promises to reach us soon.
Summary:
Garden of Remembrance is directed by Naoko Yamada (director behind A Silent Voice).
It first aired on a festival in November 2022, and wasn’t available since.
The newly released trailer promises us a 2024 release.
We hope for a theatrical release alongside Naoko Yamada’s another promising project.
Back in 2020, Naoko Yamada — the director behind some of our most favorite anime like K-On!, Tamako Market and A Silent Voice (Koe no Katachi) — left Kyoto Animation to join Science SARU (you know, the studio behind Devilman: Crybaby, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! (Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!) and Yurei Deko). Since then, we’ve already seen her as the director for Heike Monogatari and Modern Love Tokyo: He's Playing Our Song (Modern Love Tokyo: Kare ga Kanaderu Futari no Shirabe).
And yet, there’s still one of her works only the luckiest of us have seen so far.
Garden of Remembrance
In November 2022, Scotland Loves Anime festival held the first (and so far, the only) screening of Garden of Remembrance — a short 18 minutes long film directed by Naoko Yamada, with the music score provided by Lovely Summer-Chan (aka Aika Imaizumi). The movie is quite avant garde, as it has no dialogue, and delves into the psychological subject of its main character coping with the feelings of loss.
It’s also avant garde in a sense that it’s already been a year, and despite Garden of Remembrance being a finished work, it hasn’t been available anywhere since that festival — though it will soon be, as on November 18th, we’ve finally received a teaser trailer:
What to expect?
Naoko Yamada is a phenomenal director, able to turn even such a simple premise as “cute girls eating cake and playing music” into a captivating and heartwarming story. And her soft touch can also be seen through the trailer. And since the Garden of Remembrance promises us a deeply psychological story delving into feelings of loss and how they affect our daily lives, we expect to cry. A lot.
At this moment, Garden of Remembrance is expected to be released in 2024. There’s no further information on the exact date, nor in what format it will be available — though honestly, we hope for a theatrical release alongside Naoko Yamada’s other yet to be aired movie Your Color (Kimi no Iro) — a story about a girl who can see the color of people’s hearts (and does everything she can to keep them undarkened) starting a band with another girl with beautifully colored heart and a boy who loves music.
Given these stories sharing a director and their love of music, it’d be a fantastic anime duo to go to the movies for.
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