Tekkonkinkreet

In-person:

filmmaker Michael Arias, Giant Robot founder Eric Nakamura.

Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event.

Tekkonkinkreet

Japan, 2006

Based on the manga by Taiyō Matsumoto, Tekkonkinkreet follows a pair of young orphans, Black and White, one a street-wise tough, the other a dreamy innocent, as they battle the cops, the yakuza, a corporate boss and other sinister agents for control of the megalopolis, Treasure Town. American director Michael Arias makes the most of the contrast between his main characters’ youth and the gritty urban sprawl they call home, giving the film an idiosyncratic look as rich with visual detail as it is with emotion. In the pages of Giant Robot, Eric Nakamura called it “one of the best anime movies ever.”

DCP, color, in Japanese with English subtitles, 111 min. Director: Michael Arias. Screenwriter: Anthony Weintraub. With: Kazunari Ninomiya, Yûsuke Iseya, Yu Aoi.