Japanese anime "Weathering With You" nominated for Annie Award

The Japanese anime film "Weathering With You" by Makoto Shinkai has been nominated in four categories in the 47th annual Annie Awards, including Best Animated Independent Feature, the international animated film society ASIFA-Hollywood said Monday.Two other animation works directed by Japanese were nominated in the same category -- "Promare" by Hiroyuki Imaishi and "Okko's Inn" by Kitaro Kosaka.The category covers animated films with a smaller distribution than major studio releases, shown at fewer than 1,000 theaters in the United States."Weathering With You," a boy-meets-girl tale mixed w…READ FULL ARTICLE