Anime films are shown for free all day long on the big outdoor screen! Please enjoy our selection of legendary masterpieces to your heart's content while eating street food and drinking beer.
Spirited Away: Screening starts at 10:30am
Wolf Children: Screening starts at 1:00pm
Your Name.: Screening starts at 3:30pm
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10-year-old Chihiro and her parents discover an abandoned amusement park on the way to their new house. She realizes that there is more to this place than meets the eye, as strange things begin to happen once dusk falls. Ghostly apparitions and food that turns her parents into pigs are just the start—Chihiro has unwittingly crossed over into the spirit world.
Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) was the highest-grossing film in Japanese history from 2001 until 2020. This critically acclaimed film has won numerous awards, including the Academy Award—more commonly known as the "Oscar"—for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards in 2003 and the Golden Bear at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival.
Hana, a hard-working college student, falls in love with a mysterious man who attends one of her classes. On a full moon night, he transforms, revealing that he is the last werewolf alive. Despite this, Hana's love remains strong, and the two ultimately decide to start a family. Hana gives birth to two healthy children—Ame, born during rainfall, and Yuki, born during snowfall—both possessing the ability to turn into wolves, a trait inherited from their father.
Wolf Children (Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki) won the 2013 Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year, the 2012 Mainichi Film Award for Best Animation Film, and the 2013 Animation of the Year award at the Tokyo International Anime Fair. It won two awards at the Oslo Films from the South festival in Norway: the main award, the Silver Mirror, and the audience award. It won an Audience Award at 2013 New York International Children's Film Festival and the 2014 Best Anime Disc award from Home Media Magazine.
One day, Mitsuha awakens in a room that is not her own and suddenly finds herself living the dream life in Tokyo—but in Taki's body! Elsewhere, Taki finds himself living Mitsuha's life in the humble countryside. In pursuit of an answer to this strange phenomenon, they begin to search for one another.
Your Name. (Kimi no Na wa.) won the LAFCA Animation Award in 2016 and the Best Animated Film in 2017 by Mainichi Film Awards. It also won the Grand Prize Award on the 20th Japan Media Arts Festival.