ArtOrg with support from the Carleton Cinema and Media Studies department, announce the third year of the four-week Japanese Animation Festival titled “Whose Side Are You On?”.

Rana Raeuchle will be leading the series with talks on each film in the series. Rana is teaching our Comickers Unite class at ArtOrg. The festival happens on four consecutive Friday nights in October: October 7, 14, 21, and 28. The shows start at 7 pm each night in room 104 of Boliou Hall at Carleton College. Boliou Hall is located on the main campus of Carleton College on the north end overlooking Lyman Lakes. Driving out of Northfield, turn right off Highway 19 directly before Lyman Lakes; this lot is the shortest walk to Boliou Hall. Please note that the second film in the series will be shown in the ArtOrg Gallery (an appropriate location for “Gallery Fake”).

[Oct. 3 update: for more information on the phenomenon of Japanese Pop Power, go to American Radioworks radio show of today featuring Ray Suarez.]

Friday, October 6: Castle of Cagliostro – Based on the characters from the popular and long-running manga, Lupin III, this is often considered the best of the feature-length Lupin movies. Directed by award-winning Director, Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Kiki’s Delivery Service), The Castle of Cagliostro is an action-packed comedy and fun for the entire family.

Friday, October 13: Gallery Fake – Fujiya, a former restorer and curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, runs one of the most unusual galleries in Tokyo. Named “Gallery Fake,” he claims to deal solely in fakes and reproductions of some of the world’s most valuable pieces of art. But there are mysteries behind the doors of his gallery, and his business is always under the watchful eye of the curator of the Tokyo museum of art. Does he deal in counterfeits, or black market originals? Please note that this film will be shown in the ArtOrg gallery at 200 Division Street (riverside entrance).

Friday, October 20: Read or Die – Action, Espionage, and Great works of world Literature.
Some of the finest minds in all of human history are being cloned, and great works of literature are being stolen from all over the world. It’s up to Agent Paper and Miss Deep to figure out who is behind it all – and why.

Friday, October 27: Ouran High School Host Club – This exclusive, expensive private school has a secret. Up the stairs, at the end of the hall, in an unused music room, there is a Host Club. Some of the school’s most handsome boys spend their afternoons drinking tea and chatting with the upperclass young female students. But when Haruhi Fujioka, a middle-class student who attends Ouran on a scholarship, breaks an expensive vase the club had planned to auction off as a fund raiser, it is decided that Fujioka will work as the club dog until the cost is completely reimbursed.