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Pompo: The Cinephile Trailer — Takayuki Hirao‘s Pompo: The Cinephile / Eiga Daisuki Pompo-san (2021) movie trailer has been released by GKids. The Pompo: The Cinephile trailer stars Konomi Kohara, Hiroya Shimizu, Akio Ôtsuka, Christopher Trindade, Brianna Gentilella, Anne Yatco, Kenneth Cavett, and Jackie Lastra. Crew Takayuki Hirao wrote the screenplay for Pompo: The Cinephile. Kenta [...]

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"Occasionally an entire story will unfold in your mind when you meet that special someone." GKids US has unveiled a new official US trailer for the Japanese anime movie Pompo the Cinephile, which opened in Japan last summer. The US debut is coming up later in April with a special two-night event to catch in theaters. Pompo the Cinephile (originally 映画大好きポンポさん) is a rollicking, exuberant ode to the power of the movies, and the joys and heartbreak of the creative process, as a new director and his team devote their lives to the pursuit of a "masterpiece." Fueled by the excitement from the film's domestic release in Japan, a crowdfunding campaign to create a 35mm print of the feature achieved its fundraising goals of ¥10,000,000 in just eleven days. Original voices: Konomi Kohara, Hiroya Shimizu, and Akio Ôtsuka. The English-language dub has the voices of Christopher Trindade, Brianna Gentilella, Anne Yatco,...