Director Naoko Yamada's 'Garden of Remembrance' Anime Movie Premieres in 2023

by Vindstot
Jun 15, 2022 5:55 PM | 20 Comments

Avex Pictures opened an official website for Garden of Remembrance—the new anime movie by director Naoko Yamada (Koe no Katachi, Heike Monogatari)—on Thursday. The website also revealed the main staff and a teaser visual (pictured).

The movie originally screened at this year's Annecy International Animation Film Festival last month in the Work in Progress section. The movie is scheduled to premiere in 2023.

Yamada is directing the movie at animation studio Science SARU. Manga creator Etsuko Mizusawa (Moshimoshi, Terumi desu.) is credited for the original character designs. Singer-songwriter Aika Imaizumi, also known by her stage name Lovely Summer-chan, is composing the music.

Introduction
An untidy room. Empty beer tins, empty wine bottles, a half-empty glass of whisky...

A girl is getting up absent-mindedly and starts preparing herself. YOUR morning starts. Lazy and hard-to-wake-up YOU. The emoticon is ME watching over YOU. I play tricks on YOU, while YOU are playing the guitar and drinking. One day, in town, YOU walk past THE CHILDHOOD FRIEND who is buying an Anemone I liked, and remembering that I liked them, YOU rush out to buy them. THE CHILDHOOD FRIEND displays the Anemone with care.

One day, years after I died, YOU hear noise from the closet. Opened, YOU see MY garden right in front of YOU. Overflowing emotions of ME and YOU. When exiting from the room with memories, a picture of the Anemone that YOU painted is displayed in YOUR new room. (Souce: Annecy Film Festival)

Official site: https://gor-anemone.com/

Source: Press Release

Garden of Remembrance on MAL

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We love you Naoko.

Jun 23, 2022 5:58 AM by EmmanuelPlath

sonu711 said:

TsunderesTheBest said:
Why is she at Science Saru now

she had left Kyoani and already worked on Heike Monogatari from science saru

She left KyoAni and is now here? Sounds like Portnoy left the Dream Theater to play Avenged Sevenfold...ah yes...

Jun 22, 2022 12:02 PM by RobertBobert

So first person movie? Idk but looks promising

Jun 16, 2022 10:18 AM by KingShulox

grassToucher19 said:
Glad to know it's going to be a feature film. I wonder who is the writer. 2023 will be an exciting year.

Edit: Naoko Yamada is credited as both the director and screenplay. So this is going to be first film written by her.

it's not a feature film, it's a music video

https://twitter.com/fufuro_moe/status/1537061657867964419

Jun 16, 2022 9:54 AM by Hychzyoiqlon

Looks like its gonna be the kino of the decade.

Jun 16, 2022 6:14 AM by Ramkec

shit gonna be gooood. looks interesting, im definitely watching this

Jun 16, 2022 5:29 AM by lizzziziz

More Naoka Yamada content is always welcome ~

Definitely looking forward to it!

Jun 16, 2022 3:59 AM by _MushiRock11_

Well, this should be interesting lol.

Jun 16, 2022 1:49 AM by Disapeared_Ghost

the opening paragraph reminded me of my youth, anyways, looks interesting and it appears it was made to impress and not to sell, that's cool. And it's yamada naoko
straight into my ptw

Jun 16, 2022 1:45 AM by Catalano

I love Naoko Yamada and her works so much. I can't wait to watch this. Ahhh... so excited.

Jun 16, 2022 1:10 AM by Pre_Yum

TsunderesTheBest said:
Why is she at Science Saru now

Apparently, a lot of staff she worked with died or retired after arson and she could not work with a new one so she deided to move freelance, but works with Science Saru for now.

Jun 16, 2022 12:56 AM by Nachtwandler_21

TsunderesTheBest said:
Why is she at Science Saru now

she had left Kyoani and already worked on Heike Monogatari from science saru

Jun 15, 2022 11:53 PM by sonu711

The first part of introduction is literally k-on's beginning. I'm very excited!

Jun 15, 2022 11:52 PM by sonu711

Why is she at Science Saru now

Jun 15, 2022 11:15 PM by TsunderesTheBest

Glad to know it's going to be a feature film. I wonder who is the writer. 2023 will be an exciting year.

Edit: Naoko Yamada is credited as both the director and screenplay. So this is going to be first film written by her.

Jun 15, 2022 10:46 PM by grassToucher19

This is already a masterpiece. ಡ ͜ ʖ ಡ

Jun 15, 2022 10:02 PM by ZXEAN

This is the funniest synopsis I've ever read

Jun 15, 2022 8:40 PM by CQLLIST

That has to be the weirdest synopsis I've read in quite some time. Don't know what to expect.

Jun 15, 2022 8:30 PM by elnino02

Yamada should go back to Kyoani

Jun 15, 2022 7:28 PM by MichaelJackson

I have no idea what to think of this, but the director is good so I'll look forward to it

Jun 15, 2022 6:44 PM by Tokoya