{"id":324,"date":"2011-12-20T16:20:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T16:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kanzeonthemovie.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2011-12-20T17:10:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T17:10:09","slug":"tatsumi-comes-to-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kanzeonthemovie.com\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"Tatsumi comes to the UK…"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are finally just about sufficiently recovered to write about the extremely busy timetable of events that occurred about a month ago now, coinciding with the visit to the UK of Tatsumi Akinobu (one of the film\u2019s main characters) and Yuasa Koichi (who has been a supporter of the film from its very inception).\u00a0 Almost as soon as they had arrived we were into a series of radio interviews \u2013 one for the Electric Sheep Magazine <\/a>programme on Resonance FM ‘I\u2019m Ready for My Close-Up’ and then another for the Tokyo Soundscape show<\/a> on SOAS Student Radio. These appearances were part of promotion for the film\u2019s London premiere, which took place at the ICA on Friday 18th<\/sup> November as the opening night of the Zipangu Fest<\/a> \u2013 we are extremely grateful to Jasper Sharp, Fei Phoon and Tun Shwe and everyone else involved with Zipangu for all of their help and kindness.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Koichi Yuasa<\/p><\/div>\n

Much to our delight the screening was sold out, and we were similarly thrilled to be wearing the kimonos that Tatsumi had brought for us all the way from Japan. We are very grateful to Lucia Dolce from the Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions at SOAS for hosting the Q&A after the film, and to everyone who contributed their questions.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Fei Phoon for Zipangu Fest<\/p><\/div>\n

After this it was time for a quick change to get ready for the party afterwards in the ICA bar, for which we are grateful to Paul Fisher<\/a>, Laurent Fintoni<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0KidKanevil<\/a> for providing some wonderful Japanese themed sounds, accompanied by a hyponotic visual remix of the film by amoeba.av<\/a> – if you’d like to get a little taste of the music that was played, Paul did something of a preview of his set on his Far-Side Radio show, which you can listen to here<\/a>. Somewhere in the midst of all this we also did an interview for Jon Jung at the VCinema podcast, which you can listen to here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Fei Phoon for Zipangu Fest<\/p><\/div>\n

From Priest……to DJ<\/p>\n

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Photo by Fei Phoon for Zipangu Fest<\/p><\/div>\n

Then the culmination of the night came with impromptu performances on the mic by Tatsumi and Lord Kimo<\/a>, accompanied by the KanZeOn production crew and friends on percussion.<\/p>\n