Having a blast at the Gatchaman (G-force) live action movie premiere

I have written in an earlier post about the trailer for the new live-action Gatchaman (G-force) movie that I was hoping to catch it at next year’s Fantasia. Well, Christmas came early when the Fantasia Montreal 2013 schedule announced that the movie will be premiering at this year’s festival. And I mean a real, honest-to-goodness international premiere, weeks before the movie opens in Japan at the end of the month. There was one catch, though – we were planning to head back home in the morning before the screening. There are, however, no laws of time and space that can stop a fangirl on a mission. A quick Airbnb search secured a crash pad for an extra night, frequent flyer miles provided a ticket back home and it was goodbye Sporty Sis and Bro-in-Law and “Bird Go!” for yours truly. If you look closely at the picture above, you’ll see Bro-in-Law’s sad face in the background, he was a big G-force fan as well.

Awesome new trailer for live action Gatchaman/G-Force movie

How is this for a coincidence: I was recently talking to someone about our Japan trip, and he asked me when my interest in Japan had started. I told him about the beautiful books of Japanese art from which I copied pictures of geishas, meeting Japanese friends in my New Jersey high school, and then offhandedly said “but first, of course, there was G-Force.”  Yes, when I was seven, G-Force rocked my world. In case you are not familiar with that wonder of anime, G-Force (aka Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Eagle Riders, Battle of the Planets, etc.) is a Japanese cartoon about five superheros who wear bird-like costumes and save the world from a scary dude called Zoltar. It gained such a worldwide distribution in the late 70s and early 80s that it became part of the childhood for the person I was talking to, who grew up in Puerto Rico, myself, raised in communist Poland, and my American boyfriend, not to mention countless others.

Oh, Mark, you made my seven-year old heart all atwitter!