If Earwig and the Witch wasn’t enough to satisfy your Ghibli hunger, get your instruments and join the band with GKids and Shout! Factory’s On-Gaku: Our Sound!
Adapted from the manga by Hiroyuki Ohashi and directed by Kenji Iwaisawa, On-Gaku: Our Sound will be making its debut on streaming platforms, Blu-ray™, and DVD on March 9, 2021.
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This story follows a trio of high school delinquents who decide to become a band and jam to musical glory, featuring a lead performance by Japanese alt-rock legend Shintaro Sakamoto.
For more, check out the full press release from GKids :
GKIDS AND SHOUT! FACTORY ON-GAKU: OUR SOUND PRESS RELEASE
  GKIDS AND SHOUT! FACTORY PRESENT ON-GAKU: OUR SOUND Directed by Kenji Iwaisawa AVAILABLE ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS, AND BLU-RAY™ AND DVD ON MARCH 9TH VIEW TRAILER HERE Screeners Are Available Upon Request  Stills and Press Notes Available Here **2020 Annecy Film Festival Official Selection** **2019 Ottowa International Animation Festival Winner Nelvana Grand Prize** Synopsis When you’re a bored teenager looking for thrills, sometimes the only thing you can turn to is rock ‘n roll. Having no skill, money, or even a full set of drums, a feared trio of high school delinquents nevertheless decide they are destined for musical glory in a quest to impress their only friend Aya, avoid a rival gang, and – most importantly – jam out. Animated almost entirely by director Kenji Iwaisawa, and featuring a lead performance by Japanese alt-rock legend Shintaro Sakamoto, ON-GAKU: OUR SOUND brings its own sound and vision to the Hiroyuki Ohashi manga from which it was adapted. With pitch-perfect deadpan humor, the film presents a highly original take on the beloved slacker comedy: a lo-fi buddy film with a blaring musical finale that will leave you wanting an immediate encore. Bonus Features (exclusive to the Blu-ray™ + DVD release) The Making of On-Gaku: Our Sound*Our Movie: Behind the ScenesLive Musical PerformanceOn-Gaku (Demo)Rock Festival Pencil TestShort Films by Kenji Iwaisawa Mountain Mourning Ice Pop Nicky Taro Wanted to be Water Storyboards Gallery Trailers *exclusive to the Blu-ray disc About GKIDS GKIDS is a producer and distributor of award-winning feature animation for both adult and family audiences. Since 2010, the company has scored an astounding eleven Best Animated Feature Oscar nominations with The Secret of Kells in 2010, A Cat in Paris and Chico & Rita in 2012, Ernest & Celestine in 2014, The Tale of The Princess Kaguya and Song of the Sea in 2015, Boy and the World and When Marnie Was There in 2016, My Life as a Zucchini in 2017, The Breadwinner in 2018, and Mirai in 2019. GKIDS also handles North American distribution for the famed Studio Ghibli library of films, one of the world’s most coveted animation collections with titles Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke and others. GKIDS also produces the annual LA-based film festival, ANIMATION IS FILM, which embraces the highest aspirations of animation as a cinematic art form and is a vocal advocate for filmmakers who push the boundaries of their work to the fullest range of expression that the medium is capable of. About Shout! FactoryShout! Factory, LLC is a diversified multi-platform media company devoted to producing, uncovering, preserving and revitalizing the very best of pop culture. Founders Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos have spent their entire careers sharing their music, television and film favorites with discerning consumers the world over. Shout! Factory’s entertainment offerings serve up feature films, classic and contemporary TV series, animation, live music and comedy specials. In addition, Shout! Factory maintains a vast entertainment distribution network which delivers culturally relevant programming, movie and audio content to all the leading digital service providers in North America and across multiple platforms. Shout! Factory owns and operates Shout! Studios, Scream Factory, Shout! Factory Kids, Shout! Factory Films, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Timeless Media Group and Shout! Factory TV. These riches are the result of a creative acquisition mandate that has established the company as a hotbed of cultural preservation and commercial reinvention. Shout! Factory is based in Los Angeles, California. For more on Shout! Factory, visit shoutfactory.com. |
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