About Works: 2010-20's


Midoriko
Midoriko

Midoriko

HD/color/55min./2010

 

The author's first full-length animation. Tokyo in the near future. In preparation for the coming food crisis, a dream food, MIDORI-KO, developed by five scientists, escapes from the laboratory. Refusing to be eaten, Midori-ko escapes to the home of Midori, a scientist at the Faculty of Agriculture. The scientists try to steal it back. A crazy battle begins for MIDORI-KO! (Production: Mistral Japan / Producer: Akira Mizuyoshi)

  • Ottawa International Animation Festival 2010: Official Competition (Canada)
  • 2nd Los Angeles Animation Festival 2010: Official Competition (USA)
  • Japan Media Arts Festival 2010: Jury Recommended Film (Japan)
  • The 3rd Yebisu Film Festival 2011: Special Screening + Exhibition (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan)
  • International Film Festival Rotterdam 2011: Invitation screening (Netherlands)
  • 49th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Invitation screening (USA)
  • 27th Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival: Individual Program Screening (Netherlands)
  • ANIMATION CELEBRATION: Special Program Screening (The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA)
  • Zagreb International Animation Film Festival 2011: Official Competition Screening (Croatia)
  • Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2011: Official Competition Screening (France)
  • Seoul International Animation Film Festival 2012: Official Competition Screening (Seoul, Korea)
  • London International Animation Film Festival 2012: Individual Program Screening (UK)
  • 9th Japanese Film Festival 2012/Keita Kurosaka Special: Invitation Screening (Busan, Korea/Japan Cultural Agency)
  • 85th Kinema Junpo Best 10: Japanese Films 54th(out of 116 total)/Individual Japanese Film Award "Best Screenplay
Rinkaku
Rinkaku

Rinkaku

HD/color/7min./2012

 

This is the second music video provided to DIR EN GREY. The theme was "Resurrection" in response to the wishes of the band members. The images are highly abstract, a change from the direct and direct previous work. (Production: FIRE WALL/Mistral Japan)

  • Osnabruck Media Art Festival 2014: Official Selection in Competition (Germany)
  • Seoul International Manga & Animation Festival 2014: Official Selection in Competition (Korea)

 

Wealth of Vision
Wealth of Vision

Wealth of Vision

HD/color/25min./2015

 

This film was created from a vast number of pencil drawings the artist made over a period of three years, following his instinctive instincts. Like clouds and water currents in the natural world, these images can be called "catalysts" that evoke the viewer's own mental landscape without shouting the message out loud. (Production: Mistral Japan / Producer: Akira Mizuyoshi)

  • Image Forum Festival 2017: Official Screening
MATIERICA
MATIERICA

MATIERICA

HD/color/30min./2017

 

An experimental work that tries to be an "animation" while eliminating all the "anime-like" elements such as attractive characters, a compelling story, beautiful pictures, fluid movements, and pleasant music. (Production: Mistral Japan / Producer: Akira Mizuyoshi)

Metamorphous:Mountains and Streams/Ms.Yamakawa Keiko Never Looks Back
Metamorphous:Mountains and Streams/Ms.Yamakawa Keiko Never Looks Back

MetamorphousMountains and StreamsMs.Yamakawa Keiko Never Looks Back

HD/color/10min./2017

 

The landscapes of mountains and rivers are in a constant state of change over time and never go back. This is a work with thousands of pencil drawings abstracting those landscapes.

  • Image Forum Festival 2018: Official Competition (Japan)
  • ANIMATOU International Animation Film Festival: Official Competition (Switzerland)
  • TINDIRINDIS International Animation Film Festival 2018: Official Competition (Croatia)
  • SEASHORTS Film Festival 2019: Official screening (Malaysia)
Trackless lines
Trackless lines

Trackless lines

HD/color/12min./2019

 

Lines drawn in pencil on paper begin to wriggle of their own volition. Then, regardless of the artist's intention, they begin to move inexorably toward new horizons. The film is composed of seven chapters: "generation, accumulation, silence, resurrection, transformation, amplification, and diffusion.

  • ANIMATOU International Animated Film Festival: Official Selection in Competition (Switzerland)
  • St. Louis International Film Festival 2020: Official Selection in Competition (USA)
『A DRAWING FOR MAM』
『A DRAWING FOR MAM』

A DRAWING FOR MAM

HD/color/2min./2020

 

An animation work using pencil drawings produced and provided as materials for Kanazawa College of Art's "Research on the possibility of a picture-viewing experience in analog 8K filmed animation". (Principal Investigator: Hiroyuki Suzuki)

The Living Wall
The Living Wall

The Living Wall

HD/color/6min./2020

 

This is a visual poem that embodies the spirit of the "wall" that cannot move even a little itself, is left behind in the same place, and decays in solitude while seeing off those who are passing by, yet continues to live on.

  • Image Forum Festival 2020: Official Competition (Japan)
  • Hiroshima International Animation Festival: Selected for "Contemporary Japanese Animation" (Japan)
  • 75th Mainichi Film Awards: Nominated for Animation Division (Japan)
  • NIPPON CONNECTION NIPPON CONNECTION: Special Screening (Germany)
Ochita Koto no Aru Sora/The sky that has fallen
Ochita Koto no Aru Sora/The sky that has fallen

Ochita Koto no Aru SoraThe sky that has fallen

HD/color/7min./2020

 

Music video on the theme of "war" by DIR EN GREY's song of the same name. A live-action video work including animation. Live-action director is Jun Miyazaki, producer is Akira Mizuyoshi, and Kurosaka is in charge of artwork, animation, and insert illustrations. (Production: FIRE WALL/Mistral Japan)

  • Distribution will begin in August 2020.