*Presented in the original Japanese with English subtitles*

Back by popular demand, the Williams Center invites you to “Studio Ghibli Sundays,” a year-long series in which we dedicate one night a week to screening and celebrating the works of Studio Ghibli.

This rarely-screened television movie was the first Studio Ghibli film not directed by either Hayao Miyazaki or Isao Takahata. Instead, a then-young but still experienced animator, Tomomi Mochizuki, was tapped to direct this high school romance about two friends, Taku and Yutaka, who befriend and eventually develop feelings for the same transfer student, Rikako. Naturally, tensions flare between the trio, however the film’s impressionistic animation makes for a subtle, moving drama that stands in contrast to the genre’s mostly melodramatic fare.