Japanese-English Pictionary

| Short animation | 1989 | Japan | 12'00" | 16mm, HD, 4K | Standard | Mono | No dialogue, subtitles: Japanese and English | Storyboards | Drawings | Objects | Stills | Trailer | On Demand |

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Direction, Animation and Script: Yamamura Koji
Music: Kurosawa Jun



Both in English and Japanese, words develop in parallel from "A" to "Z"(from "A" to "Nn" in Japanese syllabary) taking the last syllable of the previous word. Ant-Take off-F..., Ari-Ririku-Ku... Along with the developments of those words, images metamorphoses using various animation technique so to be a pictorial encyclopedia of animation technique.

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あり-りりく-くだもの-のど-どう-うちのめす-すうじ-じくずれ-れんしゅう-うか-かじょう-うみ-みずくさ-さんかく-くう-うみがめ-め-めだま-まるた-たいほう-うなずく-くんしょう-うろこ-こうてい-いんたい-いと-と-とりなおし-しんか-かくせんそう-うき-きあい-いのち-ちきゅう-うま-まぶた-たいこ-こうぶつ-つな-なす-すりらあ-あか-かも-もぞうひん
Ant-takeoff-fruit-throat-trunk-knockdown-numeral-landslide-exercise-emergence-exces-sea-aquaticplant-triangle-eat-turtle-eye-eyeball-log-gun-nod-decorations-scale-emperor-retirement-thread-door-retake-evolution-nuclear-rainy-yell-life-earth-horse-eyelid-drum-mineral-line-eggplant-hriller-red-drake-ersatz

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Award: Special Jury Prize Award: Image Forum Festival '90, Tokyo

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Official Selection: Tampele Short Film Festival, Finland
2nd Shanghai International Animation Film Festival 1989, China

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Film print Archive: National Film Archive (Japan)

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