Animation Division
Award
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Excellence Award
A Japanese Boy Who Draws
KAWAJIRI Masanao
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Excellence Award
GON, THE LITTLE FOX
YASHIRO Takeshi
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Excellence Award
LONG WAY NORTH
Remi CHAYE
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Excellence Award
Nettle Head
Paul E. CABON
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New Face Award
Wandering mouse
TSUKIJI Nohara
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New Face Award
Elephant in the bath house
CHENG Jialin
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New Face Award
Daughter
Daria KASHCHEEVA
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Social Impact Award
Weathering With You
SHINKAI Makoto
Jury Selections
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Kitsune-Kansekai
Heihachi
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Ride Your Wave
YUASA Masaaki
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KABANERI OF THE IRON FORTRESS: THE BATTLE OF UNATO
ARAKI Tetsuro
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The Last Episode
nuQ
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Shala Bon Bon
YUKI Yoko
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DEEP SEA’S RAINBOW
SUKIKARA Makiko / MATSUMURA Kohei
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DESPAIR OF THE MONSTER
KOTANI Junya
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Her Blue Sky
NAGAI Tatsuyuki / OKADA Mari / TANAKA Masayoshi
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DORORO
FURUHASHI Kazuhiro
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WHITE SNAKE
WONG Kahong / ZHAO Ji
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PROMARE
IMAISHI Hiroyuki
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My Luxury Night
MIZUSHIRI Yoriko
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Mutafukaz
NISHIMI Shojiro / Guillaume “Run” RENARD
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Dreams Into Drawing
YAMAMURA Koji
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The Legend of Hei
MTJJ Mutou / GU Jie
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ANGEL’S TRUMPET
Martinus KLEMET
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Bear With Me
Daphna AWADISH
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BEASTARS
MATSUMI Shinichi / KATO Michiya
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CASTLE
MIYAJIMA Ryotaro
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Hello, my dears
Alexander VASILIEV
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IHR
Amélie COCHET / Louis MÖHRLE
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Listen Papa!
Tatiana POLIEKTOVA / Olga POLIEKTOVA
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LOCOMOTOR
KANEKO Isaku
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Lola the living potato
Leonid SHMELKOV
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Mascot
KIM Leeha
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Movements
JEONG Dahee
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Now 2
Kevin ESKEW
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Orbit
Tess MARTIN
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Purpleboy
Alexandre SIQUEIRA
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Silny niezalezny kosmos
Damian KRAKOWIAK
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SSSS.GRIDMAN
AMEMIYA Akira
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Still Lives
Elli VUORINEN
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Twinless
Sapir DANAN / Ronalee ISRAEL
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Winter in the Rainforest
Anu-Laura TUTTELBERG
Jury Critiques
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WADA Atsushi
Animation Artist
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YOKOSUKA Reiko
Animation Artist
The Appeal of Diversity in Animation Expression
This was my first participation as a jury member and for a period of four months, I watched, one by one, animation films submitted from all over the world. Through this experience I reaffirmed my awareness of the diverse nature and limitless scope of animation expression. I encountered a broad range of expression in a variety of genres--drama, comedy, documentary, experimental, abstract--as well …
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SUGAWA Akiko
Professor, Institute of Urban Innovation Yokohama National University
From Exclusion to Inclusion, and to the Power to Live
Each work was dazzling in its own way, and so having to make choices was an extremely tough task for me. I would therefore like to review here my choices from the perspective of media and themes. In order for a work to be eligible to compete in the Animation Division, it must be either a film intended for release in theatres or on TV, or else a work broadcast via the Internet. Creators employ …
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SATO Tatsuo
Animation Director and Scriptwriter
The Spirit of Confrontation
This was my first experience as a jury member, and I'd first like to share my impressions from reviewing the body of submitted works. What stood out was the large number of full-length films. In 2019, posters for various films, from blockbusters for nationwide release to films screened at independent art-houses, certainly incited a great deal of excitement in movie theatres. These works were …
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UDA Kounosuke
Animation Director
Making Bold Advances into an Uncertain World Ahead
Despite the overall decline in the number of works submitted to the Japan Media Arts Festival this year, the Animation Division alone saw an increase in submissions, many of them truly outstanding films. Even among the works that were not selected for the Grand Prize and the Excellence Awards, there were films that would likely have won an award if submitted in a different year. They placed a …
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Reaffirming the Power of Animation
It appears that 2019 was a bumper year for featurelength animation films. As a first-time jury member I did not know what the situation was in an average year, and so I should not say with certainty that it was truly a bumper year. There definitely were, however, numerous memorable works worthy of viewing. In addition to the high quality of animation technique, the depiction of rain, snow, fire, …