MACROSS PLUS with Shoji Kawamori In-Person

『マクロスプラス』
Makurosu Purasu

This special event is in partnership with Anime NYC:

With Macross Creator Shoji Kawamori In-Person. From the minds of “vision creator” Shoji Kawamori and co-director Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo) and featuring music from acclaimed composer Yoko Kanno (Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne), MACROSS PLUS is an all-star production that remains one of the finest examples of anime as an artform almost 30 years after its creation.

On the distant planet Eden, former childhood friends Isamu Dyson and Guld Bowman now find themselves rival test pilots in a grueling competition to decide the next generation of transformable fighter planes. Old wounds open as their mutual love interest, Myung Fang Lone, reappears on Eden as the manager of Sharon Apple, the AI pop star and the galaxy’s biggest singing sensation. When Sharon’s artificial intelligence gains consciousness, a prescient AI menace only more terrifying today, Isamu, Myung and Guld must confront their past traumas and join together to save Eden and the whole of humanity.

A groundbreaking tour de force, MACROSS PLUS is a feature film sequel to 1982’s Super Dimension Fortress Macross, one of the most seminal anime series of all time. Set a generation after the original, MACROSS PLUS perfects its pillars of action, romance and music and blends white knuckle aerial dogfights with aching emotional revelations and a show-stopping soundtrack by the legendary Yoko Kanno.

See MACROSS PLUS on the big screen followed by a Q&A with its creator and Anime NYC Guest of Honor Shoji Kawamori at Japan Society!

Dir. Shoji Kawamori & Shinichiro Watanabe, 1995, 115 min., DCP, color, in Japanese with English subtitles. With Takumi Yamazaki, Unshou Ishizuka, Rica Fukami.

Admission to this film also includes free entry to a special preview of Acky Bright: Studio Infinity, Japanese pop culture illustrator Acky Bright’s first solo gallery exhibition in NYC. Exhibition preview is August 23-25 from 12 to 7 PM at the Japan Society Gallery.

Image © 1995 BIGWEST/MACROSS PLUS PROJECT.

Japan Society programs are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Film programs are generously supported by ORIX Corporation USA, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Anime NYC and Yen Press. Endowment support is provided by the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund and The John and Miyoko Davey Endowment Fund. Additional season support is provided by The Globus Family, David Toberisky, and Film Circle members.

Transportation assistance is provided by Japan Airlines, the official Japanese airline sponsor of Japan Society Film Program. Housing assistance is provided by the Prince Kitano New York, the official hotel sponsor of Japan Society Film Program.