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2024.1.22
Thank you very much for coming to the special screening and talk show on 1/20 (Sat) and the location tour and AR experience on 1/21 (Sun).
If you attended the event, please answer the questionnaire.
*Deadline: 1/28(Sun.)>>Questionnaire : 1/20(Sat) Screening and Talk Show
>>Questionnaire : 1/21(Sun) Movie Location Pilgrimage Monitor Tour & AR Experience
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You can experience AR for location tours until Sunday, March 31!Please visit the location and experience it for yourself!
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Business Overview
This project has been selected by the Japan Tourism Agency as one of the "Tourism Content Creation Support Programs* to Attract Inbound Visitors to Local Regions and Increase Consumption," and will be implemented by HIGASHI NIPPON BROADCASTING in cooperation with CB Corporation and ADK Marketing Solutions, Inc. with support from Sendai City and the Sendai-Miyagi Film Commission.
The tokusatsu movie "Gamera 2: Attack of the Legion," which was screened in 1996 and created a nationwide sensation, featured Sendai City prominently as one of the filming locations, and the local community was very excited. Meanwhile, the unique Japanese filming technique of "tokusatsu" is known overseas as "TOKUSATSU," and its popularity is increasing year by year.
With the aim of attracting as many foreign tourists as possible to Sendai and Miyagi in the current situation where the number of tourists from overseas has drastically decreased due to COVID-19, the "Gamera 2: Legion of Honor" exhibition will be held this time with the full cooperation of the Special Effects DNA Exhibition Production Committee, which plans and produces exhibitions that have attracted over 200,000 visitors in total by displaying props and other real items throughout the country. The exhibition will be held in collaboration with "Sendai Cinema," an accreditation system that aims to promote films shot on location in the city of Sendai and attract tourists to the city through tours of filming locations.We will implement new and interesting projects that are also compatible with today's digital society.
*Support project for creation of tourism contents to attract inbound visitors to local regions and increase consumption
https://inbound-contents.snavy.jp/In order to promote local inbound tourism and increase tourism consumption, which is expected to resume in earnest, tourism businesses will work together to provide consistent support for inbound tourism resources rooted in the region, from refining them to developing sales channels.
What's "Gamera 2: Attack of the Legion"?
The special effects film "Gamera 2: Attack of the Legion" was released in 1996.
This is the second film in the "Heisei Gamera Trilogy" and takes place in Japan one year after the first film, "Gamera: Guardian of the Universe". It depicts Gamera's battle against "Legion," an unknown group of space creatures.
The many settings that elaborately incorporate the social situation in the early Heisei era, when the Internet began to spread, add breadth and depth to the work, and this film was the first film to win the Japan Science Fiction Grand Prize.
The city of Sendai, where the film was shot, is depicted as a place that "disappears" in the film, but what is noteworthy is its power and reality.
The streets of Sendai in the early days of the Heisei era, which evoke a sense of nostalgia, are elaborately depicted with a mixture of live-action and special effects technology.
What's Sendai Cinema?
Sendai City certifies "Sendai Cinema" new films that were shot on location in the city and are recognized as contributing to the promotion of tourism and city sales of the city.
【Film List (partial)】Gravity's Clowns (2009), Golden Slumber (2010), Potatoes (2012), etc.
Event Summary
- Special Screening &
Special Talk Show - Special Exhibits &
VR Experience - Location Pilgrimage Tour &
AR Experience
Special Screening & Special Talk Show
Two films, "Gamera 2: Attack of the Legion" (1996) and "Golden Slumber" (2010, certified by Sendai Cinema), will be screened specially.
Request for Participant Questionnaire
1/20(sat) Special Screening
Questionnaire Form
If you attended the Special Screening & Talk Show, please Please fill out the questionnaire. (Deadline: 1/28)
Event overview
Dates |
January 20, 2024 (Sat.) |
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Time |
Open 12:00(tentative)
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Fee |
Free |
Place |
Guriri Hall 1-3-15 Asuto Nagamachi, Taihaku-ku, Sendai City （5 minutes walk from JR Nagamachi Station and Sendai City Subway Namboku Line Nagamachi Station） *There is no parking lot. |
Guests |
 (Film director)  (Screenwriter) Film director：KANEKO SHUSUKEBorn in 1955. Born in Tokyo. Joined Nikkatsu after graduating from Tokyo Gakugei University. Worked as an assistant director on films directed by Kichitaro Negishi and Yoshimitsu Morita. He made his directorial debut with Koichiro Uno's Wet and Striking (1984). In the same year, he won the New Director's Award at the Yokohama Film Festival, and won the Pink Ribbon Award in 1985 for "Everybody Gives Up" and in 1986 for "Naughty Lolita: Virgin from Behind". His "Summer Vacation in 1999" (1988) was selected for the Telluride Film Festival, the New York Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) New Director's New Film, and the Yokohama Film Festival's Best Director Award. Gamera: Daikaiju Kessen (1995) won the 38th Blue Ribbon Award for Best Director. Won first place in Eiga Geijutsu magazine's list of the 10 best Japanese films of all time. Won the 17th Japan Science Fiction Grand Prize for Gamera 2: Attack of the Legion (1996). The "Gamera" trilogy, which included "Gamera 3: Iris Awakens" (1999), was a blockbuster hit and brought a new style to monster movies. Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: The Great Monsters Attack" (2001) and "Death Note" and "Death Note: The Last Name" (2006) were big hits not only in Japan but also in China and Korea. They won the Audience Award at the Brussels Film Festival. Other films he has directed include "Shushoku Senzen Ibiden" (1991), "Bite Me" (1991), "Nekronomikan" (1993), "Mainichi ga Natsuyasumi" (1994), "Crossfire" (2000), "Pride" (2009), "Bakamono" (2010), "Hundred Year Watch" (2012), "Jellyfish" (2013), and "The Last Name" (2012). He directed "The Man Who Reads Pieces of Scanner Memory" (2016), "Love's Wedding Cruise", "Linking Love" (2017), and "Lily's Rain Sound" (2022). His period dramas include "Azumi 2" (2005), TV's "Osoroshi: Mishimaya Modo Hyakumonogatari" (2014), followed by "Tiger" (2021). "Gold Boy" is scheduled for release in spring 2024. Screenwriter：ITO KAZUNORIBorn in 1954. Born in Yamagata Prefecture. Left Waseda University's Faculty of Letters I after graduating from the university. After working as a production supervisor on "Cyborg 009" (Japan Sunrise) and other popular animated TV series, he joined Studio Pierrot. In 1982, he made his debut as a scriptwriter with the animation "Urusei Yatsura" (Studio Piero). While writing scripts for popular TV dramas such as "Nerawareta Gakuen" and "Sayonara Sankaku" (both Fuji Television), he also worked on the original idea, series composition, and script for "Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel" (Studio Pierrot), creating a masterpiece in the magical girl genre. His representative works include "Mobile Police Patlabor" (series composition and script), "Mobile Police Patlabor the Movie" and "Mobile Police Patlabor 2 the Movie" (script), "Ultraman Powered" (script), Heisei Gamera trilogy (script), "Ghost in the Shell" (script) ), "Avalon" (screenplay), "Pistol Opera" (screenplay), "Absolute Boy" (series composition and screenplay), "MM9" (screenplay), "Nanase Futatabi" (screenplay), "Aircraft Carrier Ibuki" (co-writer with Yasuo Hasegawa), etc. |
Special Exhibits & VR Experience
2024 Guriri Hall will be filled with the world of the movie!
A special exhibition of three-dimensional objects and panels from the film will be on display for six days only in the "Guriri Hall" on the first floor of HIGASHI NIPPON BROADCASTING.
In conjunction with the special screening of the film, a "VR Experience Booth" will be available on January 20 (Saturday), where visitors can experience as if they have jumped into the world of the film.
The virtual city of Sendai projected on the 360° theater could easily be mistaken for the real thing, and we hope you will enjoy the immersive experience that only VR can provide
Contents of Special Exhibits (some of them)
©KADOKAWA NHFN/1996
Fully produced by Tokusatsu DNA Production Committee.
The exhibition will feature the Gamera 2 suit for close-up, the carbonized Gamera, and other authentic items used in the filming of the movie.
Event overview
Dates |
January 15 (Mon.) - 20 (Sat.), 2024 *VR experience booth only on 1/20 (Sat.) |
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Time |
10:00～18:00（During business hours of khb's head office） |
Fee |
Free |
Place |
Guriri Hall 1-3-15 Asuto Nagamachi, Taihaku-ku, Sendai City （5 minutes walk from JR Nagamachi Station and Sendai City Subway Namboku Line Nagamachi Station） *There is no parking lot. |
Location Pilgrimage Tour & AR Experience
When you hold up your phone, a giant Gamera appears!
On the day following the special screening, a bus tour of locations in Sendai will be held. An augmented reality (AR) stamp rally will also be held at the same time (advance registration required).
When you hold up your smartphone's camera at a spot indicated on the location map, Gamera will appear on your smartphone's screen!
*You can enjoy it without installing the application.
List of location maps and AR experience reading codes
The AR experience for location tours is available until Sunday, March 31!
Please visit the location and experience it for yourself!
Request for Participant Questionnaire
1/21(Sun.) Location Pilgrimage Monitoring Tour
Questionnaire Form
Please take a moment to fill out the questionnaire for those who participated in the location tours. (Deadline: Jan. 28)
Event overview
Dates |
January 21, 2024 (Sun.) |
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Time |
9:00-12:00 (tentative) |
Fee |
Free *Pre-registration is required. Please register using the application form. |
Place |
Movie location in Sendai City |
Meeting place |
The head office of HIGASHI NIPPON BROADCASTING Co.,Ltd. 1-3-15 Asuto Nagamachi, Taihaku-ku, Sendai City （5 minutes walk from JR Nagamachi Station and Sendai City Subway Namboku Line Nagamachi Station） *There is no parking lot. |
Application Form
1/20 (Sat) Special Screening and Talk Show
1/21 (Sun) Location Pilgrimage Monitor Tour & AR Experience
Please fill out the form below to submit your application.
| Capacity | about 30 persons |
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| Fee | Free (You will be responsible for your own transportation to and from the khb head office.) *Those who attend both days will receive a small gift. |
| Application Deadline | January 17 (Wed.), 2024 Until 5:00 p.m. |