Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Adult Empire Strikes Back

In the organizer's words:

クレヨンしんちゃん 嵐を呼ぶモーレツ！ オトナ帝国の逆襲
Kureyon Shin-chan, Arashi o yobu môretsu! Otona teikoku no gyakushû

Director: HARA Keiichi
2001, 89 minutes, OmeU, DVD

The anime by renowned director Hara Keiichi is based on the manga series of the same name by Usui Yoshito, which first appeared in 1990 and was discontinued in its original form in 2009, the year of Usui's death. However, the extremely successful series was continued by his team and also adapted for television.

The ninth episode also focuses on the rebellious boy Shin-chan. A new museum is opened in Kasukabe, which looks like a replica of the 1970 World's Fair. The adults are thrilled and flock to the museum, but mysteriously lose their memories, indulge in nostalgia and no longer care about their children. Shin-chan and his friends discover a perfidious plan and try to save the adults before the whole world follows them back in time.

Movie series
Manga on the big screen - Japanese comic adaptations

To accompany the exhibition Manga Hokusai Manga, The Sketchbooks of the Famous Master from the Perspective of Contemporary Japanese Comics, we are continuing a film series with comic adaptations, the first part of which was shown in October. It features two anime and two live-action films.

The two anime were directed by the multi-award-winning Hara Keiichi, who made a name for himself with "Summer Days with Coo"(Kappa no Kuu to natsuyasumi, 2007) and "Colorful"(Karafuru, 2010), among others. In Usui Yoshito's manga series about the rebellious boy Shin-chan, he is responsible for both the adaptation as a TV series and for several feature films.
With "Miss Hokusai"(Sarusuberi - Miss Hokusai), Hara has realized his long-cherished wish to adapt a work by manga author Sugiura Hinako. The anime is dedicated to O-Ei, a daughter of Katsushika Hokusai, who also created manga with great talent.

The two live-action films also demonstrate the immense diversity of the manga genre. An entertaining musical about an unconventional young couple is based on a web comic(Otaku ni koi wa muzukashii), and the drama by master director Koreeda Hirokazu, which is aimed at an adult audience, deals with the existential questions of life in a sensitive way(Kûki ningyô).

Price information:

Admission free