Entertainment Division
Award
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Excellence Award
NARUTO: Ultimate Ninja STORM
MATSUYAMA Hiroshi,
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Excellence Award
DENKI GROOVE "Fake It!"
TANAKA Hideyuki
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Excellence Award
LOVE DISTANCE
ITO Naoki
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Excellence Award
scoreLight
Alvaro CASSINELLI / MANABE Daito / KURIBARA Yusaku / Alexis ZERROUG
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Excellence Award
ASAHI ART FESTIVAL
OGAWA Hiroko,
Representing the Asahi Art Festival production team
Jury Selections
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Fable II
Peter MOLYNEUX
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Headbang Hero
Tiago MARTINS / Ricardo NASCIMENTO / Andreas ZINGERLE
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LocoRoco 2
KOUNO Tsutomu
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RACE DRIVER GRID
Clive MOODY
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Board game of image projection type -Youitan-
NAKAMAE Yusuke / IKEMURA Yosuke / UENO Shun (Y's Interaction)
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STREET FIGHTER Ⅳ
ONO Yoshinori
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Discipline
IIDA Kazutoshi
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DRAGON QUEST IX Hoshizora no mamoribito
HORII Yuji
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RESIDENT EVIL 5
KAWATA Masachika
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PATAPON2 DonChaka
KOTANI Hiroyuki / Rolito / II Atsushi
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Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts
Mark BETTERIDGE
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WarioWare D.I.Y.
ABE Goro representing the WarioWare D.I.Y. development team
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LOVEPLUS
UCHIDA Akari(KONAMI)
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Pokémon Rumble
ISHIHARA Tsunekazu
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Let's TAP
NAKA Yuji
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Style Savvy
YAMAGAMI Hitoshi
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9ways '09
OKA Yasumichi / ASO Tetsuro
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BOSS SILKY BLACK First Movement
SASAKI Hiroshi / GOMPA Naruhiro / MORIMOTO Chie
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IGNITE
Johan DALVQUIST
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INFINITY
OHO Kosuke representing INFINITY development team
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OGRE YOU ASSHOLE "Pinhole"
MONNO Kazue / NAGATA Takeshi
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Set in Solitude
Malak QUOTA
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SMAP exodus
SAWAMOTO Yoshimitsu / GOMPA Naruhiro
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TOWA TEI Mind Wall feat. Miho Hatori
NAKAMURA Takeshi
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Wacoal LALAN 09 spring back throw
KODAMA Yuichi / MORIMOTO Chie (Kodama goen゜)
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Tomica Hero Rescue Fire
IWAMOTO Akira
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MITSUBISHI ESTATE CO., LTD. Corporate Image "Imagination Meeting"
MORIMOTO Chie / TANAKA Hideyuki / KITAKAZE Masaru
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The Last Piece -Chapter of Kyosuke Kijima-
MIZUNO Takanobu
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Cam with me
MOTOYAMA Keiichi representing Cam with me Project Team
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INTERNAVI REALIZATION
NAKAMURA Hiroki
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PEPSI NEX SING OUT Campaign
MUTA Makoto representing PEPSI NEX SING OUT Campaign production team
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play MUJI
KAWANA Tsunemi representing play MUJI production team
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TOKYO FASHION MAP
SEINO Shinya representing TOKYO FASHION MAP production team
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TOKYO GIRLS PARADE
BOKU Masayoshi representing TOKYO GIRLS PARADE production team
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ZOOGAMI CONTEMPORARY BEER
Manuel MUSILLI / Antonio DI BATTISTA
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shiritori-ring
ABE Akihito / MOCHIZUKI Kaori
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daruman
MATSUMOTO Mari + Team daruman
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The real flight paper-airplane
TABATA Katsunori
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Lumino Disc
CHIKU Masayoshi representing the Lumino Disc development team
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Here comes the Gyorome Arien
KIHARA Yosuke
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Yubari Fusai
MITSUDERA Masato / NISHIMURA Naoki
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Re < ords Label
SAMATA Masato / OKAMURA Hiroshi (Delaware)
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YUREX™
YANAGISAWA Daisuke(KAYAC Inc.) / TOSA Nobumichi(Maywa Denki)
Jury Critiques
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Head of the Jury
KAWAZU Akitoshi
Game Designer
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UCHIYAMA Koshi
Creative Director
I went to see the movie THIS IS IT between the first screening and the final screening sessions. In this posthumous Michael JACKSON film, there are scenes in which Michael was persistently modifying the music arrangement during a rehearsal in order to make it sound closer to what the audience was expecting to hear, rather than what the band wanted to play. I saw the pride of the King of …
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GOTO Shigeo
Professor, Kyoto University of Art and Design
I believe that, in the Entertainment Division, awards should be given to works that have combined the potential of each media and entertainment quality in order to stimulate people in some way, and offer them challenge and innovation. Although the game domain certainly displayed a kind of impressive maturity compared to the visual image and web works, which had taken a daring and challenging …
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SAITO Yutaka
Game Designer
Japan Media Arts Festival may sound rather serious, but in fact, the entries are a veritable parade of unique and fun pieces. We encountered numerous works during the screening sessions, and as a result, were able to see the current trends of the art scene clearly. In that regard, we are fortunate as jury members to have been given such an opportunity. As with last year, few games were selected …
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MASUYAMA Hiroshi
Contents Producer
It is, of course, a difficult task to evaluate games within a limited time (and budget), and probably there is no single procedure or criteria that everyone can agree on. What I did for the screening of the games was to try to capture them as games, and not as visual images, and for those that I found interesting, I actually played them myself as much as I could. The fact that the award-winning …
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One of the features of this year's Entertainment Division entries was that many were entertaining and amusing. Although the experimental pieces that make use of the latest technologies are valuable, it is necessary to utilize general technology in bold ways to satisfy people through entertainment. From such a point of view, this year's award-winning works indicate that we live in an age in which …