Nishikata Film Review 西片映画レビュー

04/04/2024

My overview of Yuichi Ito's Phenakistiscope installation in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Minatomirai Line in Yokohama.

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Minatomirai Line in Yokohama, The Bashamichi Mirai Project (馬車道みらいプロジェクト) co...

15/02/2024

MOVOP Animation Screenings & Exhibition with up & coming young animation artists Fukumi NAKAZAWA (中澤ふくみ), Lina MACHIDA (まちだりな), Nana KAWABATA (川畑 那奈), Riku TAKAHASHI (高橋李空) / DOKUZEN, MARU AKARI, Hiroki KURASAWA (倉澤 紘己), and Aiko OKAMURA (岡村 あい子). On the Saturday there is a special Talk Event with guests Yū ISEKI (井関悠), the curator of the Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, artist Hirotoshi IWASAKI (岩崎博俊), and dancer / choreographer Nobunashi KON (のばなしコン).

MOVOP is a collective of young animators under 30 who want to re-evaluate contemporary animation practices. The members of the collective ...

08/01/2024

More from the NIAFF Archives! Hidari / Dwarf Studios Talk Event featuring Masashi KAWAMURA of Whatever Co, Takeshi YASHIRO of Tecarat, and Tsuneo GŌDA and producer Noriko MATSUMOTO.

In addition to its feature film competition, the Niigata International Animation Film Festival (NIAFF) also shines a spotlight on the lat...

08/01/2024

In the run up to NIAFF 2024, the Niigata International Animation Film Festival is posted video highlights from its 2023 archive. Learn more:

Renowned animator Rintarō (りんたろう, b. 1942) premiered his latest animation at the debut Niigata Animation Film Festival (NIAFF) in March 2...

04/01/2024

Happy New Year! The Niigata International Animation Film Festival (March 15-20, 2024) has announced that the Niigata Anime and Manga Festival will run concurrently (March 16 & 17). They have also posted messages from jury members on their official YouTube channel.

After a successful inaugural year, the Niigata International Animation Film Festival (NIAFF) is returning in 2024 with an even more ambitio...

19/08/2023

My overview of 90s Animation at INTO ANIMATION 8

90s Animation 90年代アニメーション Into Animation 8 I first discovered independent Japanese animation while living in Tokyo in the mid-2000s, an...

15/08/2023

Review of the Katsuo Takahashi Featured Event: Exploring 3D Animated Films // 高橋克雄特集/立体アニメーション映画への模索 at INTO ANIMATION 8 Kariko Takahashi
https://www.nishikata-eiga.com/2023/08/katsuo-takahashi-featured-event.html

31/08/2022

Day 1 at Hiroshima Animation Season 2022 - there is so much to report that I have to break the day up into two posts!
https://www.nishikata-eiga.com/2022/08/hiroshima-animation-season-2022-day-1.html

The first day of Hiroshima Animation Season 2022 was the easiest for me to negotiate because there were fewer scheduling conflicts than on ...

29/08/2022

Sawako Kabuki's marvellous music video for Kuricorder Quartet's Southpaw (サウスポー, 2019)
https://www.nishikata-eiga.com/2022/08/southpaw-2019.html

I first saw this delightful music video when the director and animator Sawako KABUKI (冠木佐和子) first posted it on YouTube back in 2019. Wh...

29/08/2022

Hiroshima Animation Season 2022: Introduction
The first in a series of impressions of the new animation festival in Hiroshima
https://www.nishikata-eiga.com/2022/08/hiroshima-animation-season-2022.html

Hiroshima Animation Season 2022 ひろしまアニメーションシーズン2022年 https://animation.hiroshimafest.org/ This year marked the beginning of a new er...

08/05/2022

I am proud to announce my animation selection for this year’s Nippon Connection - Japanese Film Festival featuring some of the best animated shorts from Japan! Get your tickets now!

https://www.nishikata-eiga.com/2022/05/resonance-selection-of-japanese.html

Resonance – A Selection of Japanese Animated Shorts Sunday, 29 May 2022, 14:45 Naxos Cinema Frankfurt am Main https://db.nipponconnection.co...

18/11/2021

Review of Homami YANO's A Bite of the Bone (骨嚙み, 2021).

https://www.nishikata-eiga.com/2021/11/a-bite-of-bone-2021.html

When a loved one passes away in Japan, their remains are ceremonially cremated. After the cremation, the remaining remnants of bone ( 骨/ ho...

07/10/2021

Crowdfunding: 10th Anniversary Edition of Harbor Tale DVD + Book
https://www.nishikata-eiga.com/2021/10/crowdfunding-10th-anniversary-of-harbor.html

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the release of the charming animated short Harbor Tale (ハーバーテイル, 2011). To celebrate the occasio...

21/07/2021

New releases from Third Window Films

Just some of the great films coming out from us on bluray over the next year…
Watch this space!

03/06/2021

Don`t miss: Live online FILM TALKS at Nippon Connection (June 1 to 6) with Sion SONO, Koji FUKADA, SABU, Miwa NISHIKAWA, Takahisa ZEZE, Toshiaki TOYODA, Shinichiro UEDA, Atsushi FUNAHASHI, Yukiko SODE, Nobuhiro SUWA, Yuta MURANO, Kenji IWAISAWA, Takeshi FUKUNAGA, Tatsuya YAMAMOTO, Anshul CHAUHAN and Julien Faraut. https://tinyurl.com/filmtalks

24/05/2021

I am pleased to present my selections for Nippon Connection - Japanese Film Festival this year!
https://www.nishikata-eiga.com/2021/05/alteration-finds-selection-of-japanese.html

The pandemic has forced long periods of sameness upon us. These recent indie animated sorts challenge us to break free from lockdown apat...

03/03/2021

Hayato Nove is having a solo exhibition at KOBO Gallery (巷房) in Ginza next week (8-13 March) to celebrate the release of his latest independent animation Parallax.
https://www.nishikata-eiga.com/2021/03/parallax-exhibition.html

To mark the release of his latest independent work Parallax (2021), the animator Hayato NOVE (野辺 ハヤト) is having a solo exhibition next w...

06/10/2020

Yoji Kuri's Onemanshow Exhibition opens Nov 3 at Galerie Vivant in Ginza

11月3日から銀座のギャルリーヴイヴアンで久里洋二さんの個展が開催されます。

今年93歳。
毎日アトリエに通い制作を続けています。
ユーモア世界の開拓者魂は、今も健在です。
皆様、ぜひ、お誘い合わせの上、お出かけください！

「久里洋二展 / Yoji KURI Onemanshow」
日時：2020年11月3日(火)〜11月15日(日)　※11月9日(月)休廊
11:00〜19:00（最終日17:00終了）
会場：ギャルリーヴィヴァン
東京都中央区銀座2-11-4富善ビル1F TEL：03-5148-5051
http://asifa.jp/index.html

Yoji Kuri's solo exhibition "Yoji KURI Onemanshow" will be held at Galerie VIVANT, Ginza, Tokyo.

"Yoji KURI Onemanshow"
Place: Galerie VIVANT,
TOMIZENBUILDING 1F,11-4,GINZA 2-CHOME,CHUO-KU,TOKYO 104-0061
TEL:+81-(0)3-5148-5051
Date: Nov. 3rd(Tue) - Nov. 15th(Sun), 2020 *Closed at Nov. 9th(Mon)
Opening hours: 11am–7pm, Last day 11am–5pm
http://asifa.jp/en/index.html

23/09/2020

My review of Nianze Li (李 念澤)'s amazing graduate film from Geidai Animation, Strawberry Candy (いちご飴, 2020). Showing this weekend at the Image Forum Festival.

https://www.nishikata-eiga.com/2020/09/strawberry-candy-2020.html

Strawberry Candy (いちご飴 / Ichigo Chigo , 2020) was the film that made the biggest impact on me at the Geidai Animation 11 Neo screenings in ...

20/09/2020

Special Atsushi Wada screenings at Eurospace this week!

私の秘かな動く愉しみ 世界を代表する「気持ちいい」アニメーション作家 和田淳の全貌が分かる、素晴らしい上映プログラム

08/08/2020

New film from Sarina Nihei! Watch the trailer now!

An animated short film Directed and Animated by Sarina Nihei Produced by Miyu Productions Sound Design by Horret Kuus

04/08/2020

Sand Art Animation by Masako Iimen as part of the Kanagawa Virtual Open Ward Exhibition

神奈川「バーチャル開放区」参加作品 『ありがとうの花』4分50秒 サンドアート・パフォーマンスで描き出すつぶつぶ感の絵画、 砂アニメーションも応用して、制作。 作者は自主制作アニメーションの出身でもある。 Sand Ar...

02/06/2020

Tomoyasu Murata has made his melancholy 2003 short puppet animation available on YouTube for the first time! Check it out!
https://www.nishikata-eiga.com/2020/06/watch-white-road-2003.html

24/04/2020

In the “before times”, when we were still able to meet in small groups in Japan, I was able to attend one of the World of Ryoji Yamada / 山田遼志の世界 special screening events hosted by tampen.jp . Learn more & watch almost all of the films: https://www.nishikata-eiga.com/2020/04/the-world-of-ryoji-yamada.html

23/04/2020

Has the quarantine got you down? Watch Hayato Nove's mesmerising animated short Affordance. It won an excellence prize at Image Forum's festival in 2016 and screened at Nippon Connection - Japanese Film Festival in 2017.
https://www.nishikata-eiga.com/2020/04/affordance-2016.html