As part of our FYC Awards Screening programme, focused on the awards race, Screen is partnering on an in-person screening of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle on Wednesday, November 26.
The screening will take place at the Curzon Victoria, with a reception and Q&A ahead of the film, where Screen International Senior International Critic Wendy Ide will be joined by British author Helen McCarthy, who has published over a dozen books across eight languages on anime, manga, history, art and craft. The conversation will introduce the film within the context of the recent success of anime in cinemas worldwide.
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Infinity Castle is the first feature film in the three-part cinematic trilogy, featuring the final battle of the anime series from animation studio ufotable. It follows Tanjiro Kamado – a boy who joined an organisation dedicated to hunting down demons called the Demon Slayer Corps after his younger sister Nezuko was turned into a demon.
The film has been a smash hit at the box office, grossing $670m worldwide so far and making it the highest-grossing Japanese film ever and the highest-grossing international film in the US (beating Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’s record).
It is directed by Haruo Sotozaki and released by Crunchyroll through Sony Pictures Releasing in international territories.
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Watch the trailer for Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle below.
