Baltimore Convention Center
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
National Cherry Blossom Festival Anime Marathon
Saturday April 13th and Sunday April 14th, 2013
11:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Come join Otakorp at the National Cherry Blossom Festival for our 11th Anime Marathon, this year featuring all 26 episodes of Shinichiro Watanabe's landmark animated television series Samurai Champloo. This smart, hip series is the story of three eccentric outcasts traveling across Edo-era Japan in search of "the samurai who smells of sunflowers." The program gleefully incorporates playful anachronisms, such as hip hop music and graffiti, while touching on actual elements of the era, such as ukiyo-e painting, historical figures, and Japan's interactions with the Dutch East India Company.
Selected episodes are introduced by experts, and tours of Hand-Held: Gerhard Pulverer's Japanese Illustrated Books and the Freer's Japanese collection are offered throughout the weekend. Visit this webpage for a detailed schedule.
Presented in conjunction with the Sackler exhibition Hand-Held with the assistance of Otakorp, Inc., and the DC Anime Club.
The marathon is free, although space is limited.
Additional Activities During the Marathon Include:
- Cosplay featuring Samurai Champloo characters
If you are interested in helping out as a character, please fill out the form here - the always popular Scavenger Hunt
The showing will start each day at 11AM at the Freer Gallery of Art:
Freer Gallery of Art
Jefferson Drive at 12th Street SW
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
202-633-1000
More information on the Freer Sackler Gallery can be found here: http://www.asia.si.edu/events/films.asp.
Event Schedule:
Saturday, April 13th11:00 AM
"Hip-Hop, Samurai, Anime and the Secret of Global Cultural Flows" Ian Condry, associate professor, comparative media studies, MIT; author of The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story
11:30 AM
Episode 1: Tempestuous Temperaments (2004, 23 min.)
Episode 2: Redeye Reprisal (2004, 23 min.)
12:30 PM
Introduction to the exhibition Hand-Held: Gerhard Pulverer's Japanese Illustrated Books - Ann Yonemura, senior associate curator for Japanese art, Freer and Sackler Galleries
1:00 PM
Episode 3: Hellhounds for Hire Part 1 (2004, 23 min.)
Episode 4: Hellhounds for Hire Part 2 (2004, 23 min.)
2:00 PM
Episode 5: Artistic Anarchy (2004, 23 min.)
Episode 6: Stranger Searching (2004, 23 min.)
Episode 7: A Risky Racket (2004, 23 min.)
3:30 PM
"In Darkest Tokyo: Gangsters, Girls, and Brocade Skins" Francois Lachaud, professor of Japanese studies, École française d'Extrême-Orient, Paris; curatorial fellow, Freer and Sackler Galleries
4:00 PM
Episode 8: The Art of Altercation (2004, 23 min.)
Episode 9: Beatbox Bandits (2004, 23 min.)
5:00 PM
Samurai Swordplay Demonstration: Koku Ryu Martial Arts
5:30 PM
Episode 10: Lethal Lunacy (2004, 23 min.)
Episode 11: Gamblers and Gallantry (2004, 23 min.)
6:30 PM
Episode 12: The Disorder Diaries (2004, 23 min.)
Episode 13: Misguided Miscreants Part 1 (2004, 23 min.)
Episode 14: Misguided Miscreants Part 2 (2004, 23 min.)
Sunday, April 14th
11:00 AM
"Ukiyo-e Pictures and the World of the Pleasure Quarters":
Julie Nelson Davis, associate professor, history of art, University of Pennsylvania; author of Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty
11:30 AM
Episode 15: Bogus Booty (2004, 23 min.)
Lullabies of the Lost Verse 1 (2004, 23 min.)
1:00 PM
"The Samurai: Movies, Manga and Myths" Mark Ravina, professor of history, Emory University; author of The Last Samurai
1:30 PM
Episode 17: Lullabies of the Lost Verse 2 (2004, 23 min.)
Episode 18: War of the Words (2004, 23 min.)
3:00 PM
"Picaresque Tales, Travelers and Lawbreakers": Constantine Vaporis, professor and director of Asian studies, University of Maryland Baltimore Campus; author of Voices of Early Modern Japan. Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life during the Age of the Shoguns
3:30 PM
Episode 19: Unholy Union (2004, 23 min.)
Episode 20: Elegy of Entrapment Verse 1 (2004, 23 min.)
4:30 PM
"Geisha: The Glamor Girls of Edo": Liza Dalby, author of Geisha and Hidden Buddhas
5:00 PM
Episode 21: Elegy of Entrapment Verse 2 (2004, 23 min.)
Episode 22: Cosmic Collisions (2004, 23 min.)
6:00 PM
Episode 23: Baseball Blues (2004, 23 min.)
Episode 24: Evanescent Encounter Part 1 (2004, 23 min.)
7:00 PM
Episode 25: Evanescent Encounter Part 2 (2004, 23 min.)
Episode 26: Evanescent Encounter Part 3 (2004, 23 min.)
