Get your Japanese film fix this weekend at the Grand Illusion...

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Below is a copy of the Grand Illusion's email announcement for this weekend. On Saturday at noon, they will be showing Kamikaze Girls, and on Sunday at noon, they will be showing various new anime. Both showings are free to the public.

SCARECROW VIDEO, VIZ & THE GRAND ILLUSION CINEMA Present

A Weekend of FAMILY MATINEES for FREE!

At the Grand Illusion Cinema
1403 NE 50th St. Seattle, WA 98105

Celebrating SAKURA-CON, the premiere Pacific Northwest Anime Convention

KAMIKAZE GIRLS
Saturday, March 25th 12:00 PM

If you missed this amazing Japanese pop culture phenomenon when it
played in town, here's your chance to see it for FREE! When Momoko, a dreamer
who longs to live in 18th century Versailles (and dresses accordingly)
meets the super-rebel Ichiko of the Ponytails motorcycle gang, the misfits form a friendship that empowers them to take on the world.

"Instead of vengeful spirits in videotapes (a la The Ring), maybe the
next big thing from Japan to assault the world will be quirky loner girls
with devastating punches-and a thing for pink." - Mark Schiling, Japan Times

For ages 13 and up, In Japanese with English subtitles, 103 min.,
www.kamikazegirls.net

NARUTO, HIKARU NO GO and ONEPIECE
Sunday, March 26th 12:00PM

Watch episodes of these extremely popular Anime series!

NARUTO is an easy-going slacker student of the prestigious Ninja
Academy, starts his internship with one goal: to become the chief of the clan.
He unwillingly teams up with Sasuke, heir to an elite ninja family, and
Sakura, a witty girl with an independent spirit. But Naruto is unaware of a
vital secret about himself. Years ago, a demonic fox-shaped monster with nine
tails devastated the country. The head of the ninja clan sacrificed his
own life to defeat the creature and sealed its spirit inside the belly of a
newborn. The infant grew up to be Naruto. The villagers, believing him
to be cursed, treat Naruto as a pariah. Through perilous missions, can Naruto
overcome his misfortunes and become a real ninja?

HIKARU NO GO --After stumbling across a haunted Go board, irresponsible
Hikaru Shindo discovers that the spirit of a master player has taken up
residence in his consciousness. In his pursuit of the "Divine Move,"
Fujiwara-no-Sai awakens in Hikaru an untapped genius for the game, and
soon the schoolboy is chasing his own dream--defeating the famed Go prodigy
Akira Toya!

ONEPIECE--As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming the King of
the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to
stretch like rubber.at the cost of never being able to swim again! Now
Luffy, with the help of a motley collection of pirate wannabes, is
setting off in search of the "One Piece," said to be the greatest treasure in
the world.

In both English and English with Japanese subtitles