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Excellence Prize
TYO STORY
Short Animation
Artist : Taku FURUKAWA
(Japan)
Taku FURUKAWA
Born in Ueno City, Mie Prefecture in 1941. Graduated from the Osaka University of Foreign Studies then entered the Yoji Kuri Experimental Manga Workshop. Began working as a freelance illustrator and animator in 1967. Won many awards in and out of Japan including, the special judges award at the Annecy International Animated Movie Festival and the Bungei ShunJu Manga Award. Representative of Taknbox Inc.. Member of the Tokyo Illustrator's Society, Japan Animation Association, Japan Manga Association and Japan Travel Writer's Association.
This work is based on Yasujiro Ozu's "Tokyo Story" that he saw when he was young.
TYO Story takes a comical and sometimes satirical look at present day Tokyo and Japan.
An elderly couple from a small island in Japan's Inland Sea travel to Tokyo to see their son and daughter,now married and living in the capital.City life is a constant hustle, and there's no time left for a leisurely talk about old times.
Indeed, the old country home is best of all... or at least,that's the cliche.
But in this topsy-turvy work, the old folks take to Tokyo like fish to water, and are soon back again, cellular phones in hand.
The creator's cynical urban philosophy, told in a knowing parody of Yasujiro Ozu's classic film "Tokyo Story," is sheer delight.
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