Evento

2019 Kansas City Japanese Film Festival

The 9th annual Kansas City Japanese Film Festival is back at Alamo Drafthouse Kansas City! All money made from this festival goes to the Taylor Anderson Foundation, a charity to help schools that were affected by the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan.

Tickets start as low as $5.50 per movie or $15 day-pass for students/kids. $7.50 for adults or $20.00 for day pass! (Plus a small service fee for ticket processing)

Tickets can be purchased online, or at the door!

Our movie line up this year.

11:00 - 12:45 Kiki's Delivery Service (Majo no takkyûbin - Japanese title)

In this anime feature, 13-year-old Kiki moves to a seaside town with her talking cat, Jiji, to spend a year alone, in accordance with her village's tradition for witches in training. After learning to control her broomstick, Kiki sets up a flying courier service and soon becomes a fixture in the community. But when the insecure young witch begins questioning herself and loses her magic abilities, she must overcome her self-doubt to get her powers back.

1:15 - 3:00 Patenma Inverted (Sakasama no Patema - Japanese title)

Patenma, A young girl, from a civilization that resides in deep underground tunnels, finds herself trapped in an inverted world and teams up with a resident to escape and return home.

3:30 - 5:30 One Piece

The Straw Hat Pirates take on Gild Tesoro, one of the richest and most ambitious men in the world.

6:00 - 7:30 Juon

Ju-on: The Grudge is a 2003 Japanese supernatural horror film written and directed by Takashi Shimizu. This film is the third installment in the Ju-on series. Several years prior to the main plot, Takeo Saeki murders his wife Kayako after discovering she is in love with another man, also killing the family cat Mar and possibly his son Toshio. The murders create a curse that revives the family as onry, with Kayakos ghost murdering Takeo. Whoever enters the house in Nerima, Tokyo, is eventually consumed by the curse, which spreads to the place they die in and in turn consumes anyone who goes there.