Totto-Chan screens at NYICFF! Go to the festival website at https://nyicff.org/tickets/ and enter promo code JapanCultureNYC2025 to claim your 10% discount.

Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window

Saturday, March 15 at 5:45 p.m.

SVA Theatre – 333 W. 23rd Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues)

Admission: $20

As the New York International Children’s Film Festival draws to a close, we have a special opportunity for JapanCulture•NYC readers! Together Films, an innovative marketing and sales company based in London and NYC serving the international film community, is offering a 10% discount to the screening of Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window on Saturday, March 15 at 5:45 p.m.

Go to the festival website at https://nyicff.org/tickets/ and enter promo code JapanCultureNYC2025 to claim your 10% discount.

Selected as one of NYIFF’s spotlight films, Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window is making its North American Premiere. It tells the powerful story of an imaginative girl learning to be herself even as the world around her changes. Anime NYC and Kinokuniya USA are presenting partners, and Koji Yakusho, who won Best Actor at Cannes for his role in Perfect Days, voices one of the characters!

About Totto-Chan

Director: Shinnosuke Yakuwa
Animation | 2023 | 114 min.
Recommended ages: 8+
Japanese with English subtitles

“Sit down! Stop talking. Pay attention!” School is hard enough, but little Totto-Chan just can’t seem to be still. Inquisitive by nature, she’s constantly inspired by the world around her—and in 1940s Japan, the wonders of Western modernization bring new and exciting ways to traditional Japanese life.

When her behavior proves to be too distracting to the rest of the class (according to her teachers, at least), her parents make it their mission to find the right place for her. Totto-Chan is no ordinary child, and her new school takes place in no ordinary classroom but in an old streetcar. Her classmates are equally extraordinary, each with their own abilities and ways of thinking.

With a schoolmaster who affirms rather than tamps down their joyous curiosity, Totto-Chan and her classmates flourish in an environment filled with acceptance and freedom of expression. The coming changes to Japan will make adjusting to new life even more challenging, but Totto-Chan, charming, chaotic, sometimes troublemaking, and often irrepressible, will be just fine as long as she can be herself.

Based on the best-selling memoir of famous Japanese television personality Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Totto-Chan is a tender reminder the things that make us different are the very things that make us special.

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WIN TICKETS TO SEE DIGIMON ADVENTURE AT JAPAN SOCIETY

Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna

Wednesday, October 16 at 7:00 p.m.

Japan Society – 333 E. 47th Street (between 1st and 2nd Avenues)

Admission: $25 Nonmembers | $20 Japan Society Members | $23 Seniors, Students, and Persons with a Disability

Join Japan Society for a one-night-only screening of Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna featuring a special in-person introduction by Hiromi Seki, Toei Animation producer and the film’s supervisor.

The original Digimon Adventure TV series premiered in 1999 and introduced the world to a group of young, hopeful heroes who were brought together to save both the real and digital worlds. The series earned acclaim for its blending of deep narrative arcs and human drama against a backdrop of warring fantastical monsters. Twenty-five years later, the Digimon franchise is more popular than ever. Toei Animation and Japan Society are presenting this special anniversary event with original producer Hiromi Seki. Produced as a special 20th anniversary feature film, Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna was originally slated for U.S. release in March 2020, but due to the pandemic, the movie never made it to North American theaters. Until now.

Ticket Giveaway!

Japan Society is generously giving away three pairs of tickets to the screening of Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna to JapanCulture•NYC followers! To enter for your chance to win, please follow @JapanCultureNYC on Instagram, like the post about the giveaway, and tag your +1! Three lucky winners will be drawn at random from the entries and notified on the morning of Tuesday, October 15. Good luck!

If you aren’t one of the lucky winners, you can still purchase tickets at Japan Society’s website. Tickets are limited, so don’t wait.

The Digimon 25th Anniversary Celebration

Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna Screening with honored guest Hiromi Seki
Special Giveaways:
Digimon Comic Volume #1 copy for all attendees
Digimon Card Game card for all attendees
Interactive Experiences:
Digimon Photo Op
Digimon Display from Bandai Tamashii Nations

Doors open at 6:00 p.m. for the Digimon Photo Op, Digimon Display, and Giveaways. Screening begins at 7:00 p.m.

About Hiromi Seki

Known as the “Mother of Sunday Morning Anime,” Hiromi Seki has been associated with Digimon since its very beginning, when she served in the planning and production of the original Digimon Adventure series. Over the last 25 years, Seki has been involved in 13 different Digimon films and series, including supervision of the franchise’s most recent movie, Digimon Adventure 02 The Beginning. In addition to Digimon, as a Toei Animation producer, Seki was the series producer who created Magical DoReMi and has worked on such productions as Marmalade Boy, Boys over Flowers, and Zatch Bell.

Catch Totto-Chan at NYICFF!