Kenji Itoso’s “Coluboccoro” Reaches Kickstarter Goal

KENJI STUDIO, Inc., in cooperation with AWESOME JAPAN Inc. have successfully reached the funding goal on the Kickstarter project on to produce the English language version of the award winning film, Coluboccoro.

To celebrate the successful funding of the project, a preview including the first few minutes of the film has been released.

From the creator of Santa Company, director and producer Kenji Itoso has won much acclaim for his film Coluboccoro, including being supported by Anime Innovation Tokyo, selected for the Eco Japan Cup 2007 semi Grand Prix and won the Business Award from the Tokyo Anime Awards in 2008.

Now that the project has reached its initial goal to translate and localize the film, the project hopes to top $100,000 to add additional footage and bring the run time to 30 minutes from the original 22 minutes.

Ten days remain on the campaign which can be found here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1287579779/coluboccoro