First Trailer For JIN-ROH Director's A LETTER TO MOMO

It has been a long, long wait for fans of director Hiroyuki Okiura and Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade. With his debut feature Okiura created a modern day classic, a film that is - in my opinion - one of the greatest animated features ever made. It is virtually a perfect film but rather than capitalizing on its success Okiura simply faded into the background and didn't direct another feature for eleven long years. And now he's back with A Letter To Momo.

Momo is a young girl who grew up in a big city. However, following the premature loss of her father, she has to move with her mother to the old family house on a remote island. Here, time seems to have stopped: old wooden buildings, holy shrines surrounded by trees, fields painstakingly carved out from steep hills... and no shopping mall.

Needless to say, Momo is not too overenthusiastic about this new environment. Most of all, her heart is still feeling uneasy about an unfinished letter left by her father. A letter that contained only two words: "Dear Momo..."

Obviously this is very different material than what Okiura was handling in Jin-Roh but a master is a master in any genre and I couldn't possibly be more excited to have him back. And now we get our first taste of the film in the trailer embedded below.