Introducing award-winning works in 2006 [10th] Japan Media Arts Festival.
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Artist：KIMOTO Keiko
[Summary] A work that realizes through computer programming the high-resolution display of non-linear structures generated when complex natural phenomena are expressed using equations. Particles of light trace globules and swirls which play out in a dazzling dance.
Artist：KAMIYA Hideki
[Summary] A nature adventure game drawing on Japanese fairytales. Amaterasu, in the form of a white wolf, in an attempt to recover nature’s beauty, takes on the monsters that have led the world to decay.
THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME
Artist：HOSODA Mamoru
[Summary] An animated version of TSUTSUI Yasutaka’s science fiction novel, this is a growing-up movie that differs in taste from the preceding live action production (Director: OHBAYASHI Nobuhiko) of the same title. A film that uses the power of animation to depict the infectious thrill of youth.
Artist：KAWAGUCHI Kaiji
【[Summary] August 10th, 2002. A massive earthquake strikes and Mt. Fuji erupts. Natural disasters hit the Japanese Islands one after the other. How do people live in extreme conditions, and how do they get their futures back? KAWAGUCHI Kaiji depicts Japan in the year 2017 through the eyes of a young boy, RYU Genichiro.
DAIKUHARA Akira (Animation director)
Born on November 23, 1917. Animation director.
A person who laid down the genesis of Japanese animation. Established a totally different style for every piece of work and worked as an animation director for many early feature length animation films at Toei Doga (current Toei Animation Co. Ltd.) with his versatile technique and speed. There are a lot of younger staff who set out on their own with improved skills which were developed under his flexible coaching. He was involved in a various old hit films such as with original drawings of THE WHITE SNAKE EHCHANTRESS, Kid Magician Sasuke, Enchanted Monkey and Adventure of Sindbad and as the animation director for DOGGIE MARCH, Fables From Hans Christian Andersen and Alibaba and The Forty Thieves.
