The month of November this year is shaping up to be a fun time for moviegoers as some select and nationwide theaters are expected to showcase some of 2023’s greatest highlights in Japanese animation and film-making.
From animations such as “The Tunnel to Summer, The Exit of Goodbyes” to “City Hunter the Movie: Angel Dust” and from live-action “Tokyo MER: Mobile Emergency Room” to yet another animation “The Boy and The Heron,” the entire month of November should keep every movie buffs busy with their hobby.
Starting on November 1, “Tunnel to Summer, The Exit of Goodbyes” will be hitting the screens of SM Cinema as an exclusive. The anime movie follows the lives of two young protagonists who were fatefully entangled because of a single mysterious tunnel that’s said to grant people’s fondest wishes but for a price.
In celebration of City Hunter’s 35th anniversary, Aniplex and Sunrise partnered up to produce City Hunter the Movie: Angel Dust. Set to launch seven days after the previous movie, on November 8, this animated film is yet another SM Cinema exclusive. It once again features the series’ protagonist Ryo Saeba who, this time, is tasked with thwarting an underground-ran drug called Angel Dust that’s said to create super soldiers.
To open exclusively at the Ayala Malls Cinema on November 22, “Tokyo MER: Mobile Emergency Room” is a movie adaptation of the beloved TV series. It revolves around the lives of medical practitioners who were given a special task by the governor to keep Tokyo as death-free as possible. This time, however, faced with a burning 70th floor of the Yokohama skyscraper with 193 lives to rescue.
Lastly, on November 29, “The Boy and The Heron” will be shown in local cinemas nationwide. Highly touted as Hayao Miyazaki’s semi-autobiographical work, the animated film revolves around life, death, creation, and friendship that would normally come from the mind who may have possibly experienced it all in one way or another.