Animation Division
Award
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Excellence Award
ASURA
George AKIYAMA / SATO Keiichi
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Excellence Award
WOLF CHILDREN
HOSODA Mamoru
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Excellence Award
The Life of Budori Gusuko
SUGII Gisaburo
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Excellence Award
The Great Rabbit
WADA Atsushi
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New Face Award
Futon
MIZUSHIRI Yoriko
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New Face Award
LUPIN the Third :The Woman Called Fujiko Mine
MONKEY Punch / YAMAMOTO Sayo
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New Face Award
Oh Willy...
Emma De SWAEF / Marc James ROELS
Jury Selections
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Deposit of Sentiment
SUZUKI Saori
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My socks
KATO Ikuo
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KIDS ON THE SLOPE
WATANABE Shinichiro
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The Sakuramoto broom workshop
TSUGEHATA Aya
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Recruit Rhapsody
YOSHIDA Maho
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POSSESSIONS
MORITA Shuhei
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tsuritama
tsuritama partners
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Rainbow Fireflies
UDA Konosuke
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NEW TOKYO ONDO
UWABO Misaki
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HARBOR TALE
ITO Yuichi
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FUSE -Memoirs of the Hunter Girl
MIYAJI Masayuki
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Friends Naki on Monster Island
YAGI Ryuichi / YAMAZAKI Takashi
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Berserk Golden Age Arc II: The Doldrey War
KUBOOKA Toshiyuki
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AFTERSCHOOL MIDNIGHTERS
TAKEKIYO Hitoshi
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I'm also a bear
GODA Tsuneo
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I am alone, walking on the straight road.
OKAMOTO Masanori
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Sunset Flower Blooming
HU Yuanyuan
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Yonalure: Moment to Moment
NAKATA Ayaka / SAKITANI Yuki
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awaiting
KIM Hakhyun
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crazy for it
KUBO Yutaro
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Carefree Fairies
gdgd-partners
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Grain Coupon
CHEN Xi
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KiyaKiya
KONDOH Akino
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Love Games
JOUNG Yumi
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NO RAIN NO RAINBOW
SAKAI Osamu
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Nyosha
Liran KAPEL / Yael DEKEL
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The Sardine Tin
Louise-Marie COLON
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108 prayer beads
LI Han Han
Jury Critiques
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OSHII Mamoru
Film Director
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Head of the Jury
HIKAWA Ryusuke
Animation Critic
Seeking Further Advances in Visual Expression
Submissions from around the world to the Animation Division have increased year by year, and this year the task of narrowing down the award candidates put us in a happy quandary. Because animation is a field in which advances in digital technology are easy to see and readily reflected in the quality of what appears onscreen, one gets the impression that high-quality works are proliferating with …
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FURUKAWA Taku
Animation Artist
A Diversity of Japanese Animation Shorts
Though there may be no specific trends to distinguish this year's crop from those of past years, I am happy to see how diverse the selection of Japanese animated short films has become. It was truly a challenge to whittle the entries down to the requisite number of Jury Selections. There were plenty of fascinating, well-made works that unfortunately did not make the cut. The final step in the …
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WADA Toshikatsu
Animation Artist / Adjunct Professor, Tokyo Zokei University
The Power of Perfection and Originality
Watching and judging all of the approximately 370 short works submitted to this division was an enjoyable and interesting task. Regardless of whether they were Japanese or foreign, the works by a younger generation of artists, including students and graduates of film and animation programs, displayed a great deal of vitality. I think this is in part due to the disappearance of any difference in …
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The Rise of “Everyday Life” as a Subject
The story has suffered a noticeable decline. Or perhaps it would be more apt to say that the narrative urge is vanishing from animation. This is a trend that began a few years ago. Irrespective of what may be going on in TV series or films, storytelling in animation has decreased drastically, and in its place the subject of "everyday life" has taken the animation world by storm. There is clearly …