Chocolate Underground
Canadian Premiere
Screening Time
Saturday, May 29, 3:00pm
Sunday, May 30, 2:45pm
Film Trailer
Animation / Japan / 2009 / 87 minutes
Director： Takayuki Hamana
Produced by Production I.G.
Language : Japanese w/ English subtitles
From the producers of Ghost in the Shell, Sky Crawlers and Patlabor and based on the award winning novel Bootleg by Alex Shearer
A corrupt administration announces its plans to enforce the “Chocolate Prohibition Law.” Armed with courage and friendship, two young boys take a stand against the tyrannical regime. This premise, taken from popular English writer Alex Shearer’s novel Bootleg, captivated readers across the world．
The production was headed by Production I.G. and Trance Arts, the dynamic duo also responsible for making The Prince of Tennis. The film is directed by Hamana Takayuki (Library War) and the character design is handled by Takayuki Goto (Ghost in the Shell：S.A.C.). Together, they take the fundamental story and transform it into
something new.
The animated Chocolate Underground is sure to l eave your mouth watering!
About Alex Shearer (Novel) (1949-)
Alex Shearer started his writing career as a scriptwriter. His credits include The Two of Us (1990), Delta Wave (1996), and Wilmot (1999). In 1999, his novel The Greatest Store in the World, was screened as a feature length TV film on Christmas Eve by the BBC. The work was nominated for the 2000 BAFTA Children’s Award. Additionally he has written more than a dozen books for children and adults including The Hunted and The Speed of the Dark, both of which were short-listed for the U.K.’s prestigious Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize.
About Production I.G. (Production Company)
Production I.G has produced a number of acclaimed feature films, OVA (original video animation), TV shows, and videogames. For their storytelling and quality of animation, Ghost in the Shell (1995, directed by Mamoru Oshii), Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999, directed by Hiroyuki Okiura, Jury’s Special Prize at Fantasporto 1999), and Blood: The Last Vampire (2000, directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo), have earned critical accolades in Japan and all around the world. Innocence, directed by Mamoru Oshii in 2004, has been the first Japanese animation feature ever to compete for the Palme d’Or at the Festival de Cannes.
Click here for the press kit of the film. chocolate-eng
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