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The 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival Award-winning Program

This program comprises 7 works from award-winning works of the Animation Division from the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival.

Animation Division : Award-winning Works

New Face Award
Wandering mouse
© Nohara Tsukiji 2019
“Wandering mouse” (2019)
TSUKIJI Nohara [Japan]
Animated short film [5min.49sec.]

Tsukiji Fish Market, a famous fish market in Japan, moved in 2018. This is the story of a rat that has lost paradise.

Excellence Award
GON, THE LITTLE FOX
© TAIYO KIKAKU Co., Ltd. / EXPJ, Ltd.
“GON, THE LITTLE FOX” (2019)
YASHIRO Takeshi [Japan]
Animated short film [27min.57sec.]

When Gon, a playful orphaned fox, finds that young Hyoju has lost his mother, he tries to comfort him and make amends for his own earlier mischiefs by secretly bringing small gifts to the young man every day. But Hyoju doesn’t realize who is behind the anonymous gifts, and the two are headed for a heartbreaking climax.

New Face Award
Elephant in the bath house
© 2019 CHENG Jialin / Tokyo Zokei University
“Elephant in the bath house” (2019)
CHENG Jialin [China]
Animated short film [3min.42sec.]

In the 90s, I lived in the residential area next to the factory.
One day I found an elephant in the employee bathhouse where I used to go.
Henceforth,I embarked on a special experience.

New Face Award
Daughter(official trailer)
“Daughter(Official trailer)” (2019)
Daria KASHCHEEVA [Russia]
Animated short film [1min.20sec.]

In a hospital room, the Daughter recalls a childhood moment when as a little girl she tried to share her experience with an injured bird with her Father. A moment of misunderstanding and a lost embrace has stretched into many years all the way to this hospital room, until the moment when a window pane breaks under the impact of a little bird.

Excellence Award
Nettle Head
© Vivement Lundi ! – 2019
“Nettle Head” (2019)
Paul E. CABON [France]
Animated short film [14min.14sec.]

Bastien and his two friends enter the forbidden area. In the ruins and the toxic haze, something is waiting…
Social Impact Award
Weathering With You
© 2019 TOHO CO., LTD. / CoMix Wave Films Inc. / STORY inc. / KADOKAWA CORPORATION / East Japan Marketing & Communications, Inc. / voque ting co.,ltd. / Lawson Entertainment, Inc.
“Weathering With You (Trailer #2)” (2019)
SHINKAI Makoto [Japan]
Animated feature film [2min.2sec.]

This film is set in Tokyo during a period of nonstop rain. It tells the story of Hodaka, a boy who flees from his native island on a ferry and meets Hina, an orphan girl who lives with her younger brother. Hina has the mysterious power of clearing the sky by praying. Hodaka and Hina start a business that fulfills their clients’ requests to clear the sky for special events. The cost of this to Hina’s ability, along with the burden of people’s expectations, however, start to bring about a dramatic shift in fate for them.

Grand Prize
Children of the Sea
© 2019 Daisuke Igarashi･Shogakukan / “Children of the Sea” Committee
“Children of the Sea (Official trailer 2)” (2019)
WATANABE Ayumu [Japan]
Animated feature film [1min.]

When Ruka was younger, she saw a ghost in the water at the aquarium where her dad works. Now she feels drawn toward the aquarium and the two mysterious boys she meets there, Umi and Sora. They were raised by dugongs and hear the same strange songs from the sea as she does. Ruka’s dad and the other adults are only distantly aware of what the children are experiencing as they get caught up in the worldwide mystery at the sea.

Details of 23rd Award-winning Works

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