17 Oct
13 nov

Inspired and Audacious: Women Creators in Japanese Animation
靈感與勇氣:日本動畫行業中的女性創作者

Duration: 01:14:09
全長 01:14:09
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Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre
邵逸夫創意媒體中心
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31 Oct (Mon 一) – 11 Nov (Fri 五)
Closed on Weekends
逢星期六日休息
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The program showcases nine works, from distinctive short films, heartwarming feature films, and innovative TV animations to energetic music videos, all created by inspiring and audacious women creators in Japan. We have compiled their works into a single collection of female creators making waves in Japan, including Award-winning works at the Japan Media Arts Festival.

“The Heike Story” describes the glory and decline of a samurai clan. “A Bite of Bone” shares the ritual of biting bones after cremation. “I’m Late”, a piece showing how missing periods can bring out all sorts of emotions in people. “Looking for Magical Doremi”, a film based on an anime series for girls.

Enjoy the beautiful, adventurous, quirky, bold, relatable, and diverse world in their works.

是次節目呈獻共九部作品,從出色的短片、暖心的電影、創新的電影動畫以至動力節拍的音樂錄影帶等通通都有,全部由日本創意無限又充滿膽識的女性創作者所作的。我們把她們的作品編成一部在日能掀動浪潮的女性作品集,裡面也包括了在日本文化廳媒體藝術祭的得奬作品。

《平家物語》描述了一個武士家族的輝煌與衰落。
《咬骨》分享了關於火化後的咬骨儀式。
《我晚來了》呈現了經期的時表錯亂如何牽動各種情緒。
《尋找神奇的多雷米》是根據女孩動漫系列所改編的。

來欣賞她們作品中美麗的、歷奇的、古怪的、大膽的、可親的以及多樣化的世界!

Curator 策映: OKAMOTO Mitsuko (Producer / Vice President, Tokyo University of the Arts / Professor, Department of Animation, Postgraduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts) / SEKI Hiromi (Producer, TOEI ANIMATION CO., LTD.) / WAKAMI Arisa (Animation Artist / Associate Professor, Tokyo Zokei University)
Production 製作: Japan Media Arts Festival Overseas Promotion
Film length 全片長: 1h14m09s 1小時14分鐘9秒

copyright: © 2022 Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan All Rights Reserved.

Looking for Magical Doremi (Official Trailer)
尋找神奇的多雷米 (官方預告)

SATO Junichi, KAMATANI Haruka
2020 / Animated Feature Film 動畫電影 / 0:91:00(0:06:00)
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25th JMAF Animation Division Jury Selection
第廿五屆日本文化廳媒體藝術祭評審奬

©Toei / Toei Animation

University student NAGASE Sora living in Nagoya wants to become a teacher but lacks confidence and is confused about his career path. YOSHIZUKI Mire returns to Japan from abroad, gets the job she wanted in Tokyo as an office worker, but faces difficulties in fitting in. Part-timer KAWAYATSU Reica of Onomichi is saving up money for her dream of going to college, but her loser boyfriend messes her life up. They have nothing in common, from age, personality, to place of residence, but they all can’t see the future that they have envisioned and are deeply lost in life! Somehow Magical Doremi brings them together?! After their fateful encounter at the Maho Dou (Magic Hall), a western-style building in Kamakura where witch’s apprentices used to gather, the three set out on a journey to Hida-Takayama, Kyoto, and Nara, all the places associated with Magical Doremi! The three spend an irreplaceable time laughing, crying, and supporting each other, realizing that Doremi and her friends have always been with them.

居於名古屋的大學生Nagase Sora想要成為一名教師,但她缺乏自信,對自己的職業前程受感困惑。Yoshizuki Mire從國外回到日本,在東京找到自己想要的工作,成為白領,但在適應方面卻遇上重重困難。在尾道市兼職打工的Kawayatsu Reica正為她上大學之夢儲錢中,但她那個廢男友卻連累她生活變成一團糟。她們沒有任何共同點,無論是年齡、個性以至居住地,但她們都前路茫茫,看不見自己想要的未來。然而「神奇的多雷米」讓他們走在一起 ?! 當她們在魔法廳 (位於鐮倉的一座西式建築,過去是巫師學徒聚集的地方) 命中注定地相遇,她們三人一起踏上了飛驒高山、京都和奈良的旅程,這些地方全都連繫著「神奇的多雷米」!女孩們渡過了一段不可替代的歲月,裡面有笑有淚,她們相依支持,音識到「神奇的多雷米」與朋友們將永遠和自己在一起。

Original Story 原創故事: TODO Izumi
Director 導演: SATO Junichi / KAMATANI Haruka
Screenplay 編劇: KURIYMA Midori
Music 音樂: OKU Keiichi
Character Designs 角色設計 / General Animation Director 總動畫導演:
UMAKOSHI Yoshihiko
Animation Directors 動畫導演:
NAKAMURA Shoko / ISHINO Satoshi / SATO Masayuki / BABA Mitsuko/ NISHII Terumi / URAGAMI Takayuki

Storyboards 分鏡:
KAMATANI Haruka / SATO Junichi / IGARASHI Takuya / TANI Azuma
Production Manager 製作經理: MURAKAMI Akihiro

Anxious Body
焦慮的軀體

MIZUSHIRI Yoriko
2021 / Animated Short Film 動畫短片/ 0:05:47
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25th JMAF Animation Division Jury Selections
第廿五屆日本文化廳媒體藝術祭評審奬

©MIYU Productions, New Deer, Yoriko Mizushiri

Living things, artificial things, geometry shapes, and lines. When these different things collide, a new direction is born.

生物、人工物、幾何物與線體,當這些不一樣的東西碰撞起來,新方向便會產生。

Animation 動畫: MIZUSHIRI Yoriko
Scenario, Script 場景、劇本: MIZUSHIRI Yoriko
Set 佈景: MIZUSHIRI Yoriko
Image 影像: MIZUSHIRI Yoriko
Film editor 剪接: MIZUSHIRI Yoriko
Mix 混音: ONO Seigen
Soundtrack 配樂: Yuka C. HONDA
Production Company 製作公司: Miyu Productions
Co-Production Company 共製公司: New Deer

Yushi no Ko (“A Child of Yushi”)
遊者之歌

ISSHIKI Azuru
2009 / Animated Short Film 動畫短片 / 0:02:35

©Azuru Isshiki

The Japanese word “yushi” means “traveler” or “passenger”. The name is symbolic, comprising the Chinese character meaning “to swim” or “to play”. Yushi no Ko (“A Child of Yushi”) is a film about a girl who oscillates playfully between her child and adult form in an abstract world.

日本語中「yushi」解作旅行者或乘客,這名字是富象徵性的,糅合著中文字中的「游」與「玩」。作品是關於一個女孩在抽象的世界裡遊玩搖擺來回在成人與兒童的狀態之間。

Director and Animation 導演與動畫: ISSHIKI Azuru
Music 音樂: SHIMA Ken
Digital support 數碼支援: KUTSUZAWA Gen / TAKAHASHI Hiroshi
Special thanks 特別鳴謝: YUZAWA Haruki / YUZAWA Ari / WADA Toshikatsu

Pokémon Special Music Video 「GOTCHA!」
寵物小精靈特別音樂錄影帶《GOTCHA!》

MATSUMOTO Rie
2020 / Music Video 音樂錄影帶 / 0:03:14

©2022 Pokémon.
©1995-2022 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc.
TM, ®, and character names are trademarks of Nintendo.

A collaboration between Pokémon, Bump of Chicken and animation studio Bones Inc., GOTCHA! is a special animated music video, directed by MATSUMOTO Rie, for the song “Acacia” written by rock band Bump of Chicken. The video features all the main characters, rivals and champions who appeared in the long-running series, re-enacting many of the battles and character relationships that unfolded within the game. The most veteran of Pokémon fans are left the most moved by this animation, which attracted massive attention upon its release. With cutting-edge expression owed to its narrative’s kinetic pace and experimental production, this animation aspired to reboot Pokémon’s original representation.

The video was released on the official Pokémon YouTube channel in September 2020, with its lyrics subtitled in nine languages. As of May 2022, it had exceeded 60 million views and continues to garner heartfelt messages from fans all over the world.

《GOTCHA!》是一部特別的動畫音樂錄影帶,與寵物小精靈、Bump of Chicken以及動畫工作室Bones Inc.合作,由Matsumoto Rie執導,為搖滾樂團Bump of Chicken創作的樂曲《Acacia》所作。作品中呈現了在長篇系列中出現的主要人物、對手與冠軍們,重現了在遊戲裡面展開的許多戰鬥及人物關係。最資深的寵物小精靈粉絲被感動得一塌糊塗,作品一經發佈吸引海量關注,這部作品富有前瞻性的敍事方法、實驗性的製作,期望重現寵物小精靈的初衷。

音樂錄像於2020年9月在寵物小精靈的官方Youtube頻道上發佈,歌詞字幕多達九種語言,2022年5月它的瀏覽量已超過6000萬,並持續受到全球粉絲的支持與祝福。

Music 音樂: “Acacia” by BUMP OF CHICKEN (TOY’S FACTORY) Director 導演: MATSUMOTO Rie Character Design 角色設計: HAYASHI Yuki Animation 動畫: BONES INC. Planning and Produced 計劃與製作: KAWAMURA Genki, HATANAKA Masami

Blink in the Desert
沙漠一眨眼

SOEJIMA Shinobu
2021 / Animated Short Film 動畫短片/ 10:34

©2021 ShinobuSoejima

Malice comes up abruptly as if it were a blink and capricious like a flapping insect. One day a young hermit finds a winged insect and crushes it out of disgust in the desert. Meanwhile, the elephant sees what he has done to the winged insect but says nothing. From that day on, the boy is chased by shadows of the winged insects.

The title Blink in the Desert means “a moment of flapping in the desert.” A blink of evil sprouting in the middle of a lonely wilderness. This abrupt moment of malice attacked the protagonist like a tempting devil appearing suddenly before a person in his prayers.

This work, which was filmed in stop motion, expresses the complicated inner workings of the human mind such as mental conflict and fear by intentionally using a doll that has no facial expressions and instead using the angle and shading of its face. The dirt that accumulates in the doll shows the changes in deep and delicate emotions, which is her technique of visualizing negative emotions. Please pay attention to how the dirt and scars change on the doll at the end of the story.

惡意出現有時不過是一眨眼的功夫,任性得像一只快要被拍的蟲子。

某天一名年輕隱士發現了一只有翼的昆蟲,覺得噁心就在沙漠中把蟲子捏死。就在此時一只大象路過看到他對昆蟲所做的事不發一言。從這天起,這男孩一直被有翼昆蟲的影子追趕著。

作品命名為《沙漠一眨眼》的意思就是在沙漠裡拍打的瞬間;在孤獨的荒野中,一閃而過的惡意萌芽,這黑暗的瞬間襲來,就似誘人的魔鬼突然出現在一個人的祈禱裡。

作品採用定格技術,通過故意使用一個沒有面部表性的娃娃,利用其面部菱角與陰影去表達人類複雜的內心世界,如同精神衝突與恐懼。娃娃身上積聚的污垢呈現了深沉而細膩的情緒,這是她把負面情緒視覺化的技巧。請注意在故事總章時娃娃身上的疤痕與污垢的變化。

Director導演: SOEJIMA Shinobu
Music 音樂: Marty HICKS
Sound Design 聲音設計: NAKAOKA Hisako / TAWARATSUMIDA Nao
Producer 監製: ITO Yuichi / Tokyo University of the Arts

Sonny Boy (Official Trailer)
漂流少年 (官方預告)

NATSUME Shingo
2021 / Animated TV series 動畫電視劇 /
24 min 30 s × 12 episodes 共12集
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25th JMAF Animation Division Excellence Award
第廿五屆日本文化廳媒體藝術祭優異奬

©Sonny Boy committee

On a seemingly endless summer vacation one August 16, Nagara and a group of fellow third-year middle school students suddenly find themselves caught up in an unimaginable situation—Nagara’s school is swept into another dimension, taking with it 36 of his classmates, including the mysterious transfer student Nozomi, as well as students Mizuho and Asakaze. They are also bestowed various “special abilities” in the process. Some students are wrapped up with their superhuman abilities and run riot; others opt to become leaders and attempt to guide other students. The remainder desperately search for ways to return to their own world. Surging distrust, irrepressible jealousy, and clashes resulting from a desire to control ensue. Confronted by a series of mysterious encounters, the boys and girls are suddenly thrust into survival mode as Nagara and his friends endeavor to conquer this world and return safely home.

8月16日,在一個似是無盡的暑假裡,Nagara與一群中學生突然發現自己陷入了一個難以想像的情況 – 學校被捲進另一空間,與他的36名同學,包括神秘轉學生Nozomi以及同學Mizuho和Asakaze。他們在這個過程中均被賦予了不同的特異功能;有些同學被他們的超人能力所包圍所以決意暴走、有些決定當上領䄂並嘗試指導其他學生、其餘的人則拼命地找返回原來世界的方法。裡面湧會著不信任、不可抑壓的妒忌以及因控制慾而生的衝突,面對這一系列的神秘遭遇,男孩女孩們突然被推進生存模式中,Nagara與他的朋友們想要努力征服這世界並安全回家。

Director, Screenwriter and the Creator of the Original Story
導演、編劇、原創故事: NATSUME Shingo
Original Character Design 原創角色設計: EGUCHI Hisashi
Animation Production 動畫製作: MADHOUSE
Character Designer 角色設計: KUGAI Norifumi
Art Director 美術總監: FUJINO Mari (Studio Pablo)
Color Designer 著色設計師: HASHIMOTO Satoshi
Composite Director 影像合成導演: FUSHIHARA Akane
Editor 剪接: KIMURA Kashiko

I’m Late
我晚來了

KABUKI Sawako
2021 / Documentary Animation 動畫紀錄片/ 10:35
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25th JMAF Animation Division Jury Selections
第廿五屆日本文化廳媒體藝術祭評審奬

©MIYU Productions, New Deer, Sawako Kabuki

Have you or your partner ever had an experience where you missed your period or been “late”?

你或你的伴侶有沒有否試過月經錯亂又或是晚來了?

Director 導演: KABUKI Sawako
Animation 動畫: ZHOU Xiaolin, UMEBAYASHI Ikumi, SHIMIZU Haruka
Film editor 剪接: Albane du Plessix
Soundtrack 配樂: Hikariko
Production Company 製作公司: Miyu Productions
Co-Production Company 共製公司: New Deer

A Bite of Bone
咬骨

YANO Honami
2021 / Animated Short Film 動畫短片 / 09:45
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25th JMAF Animation Division New Face Award
第廿五屆日本文化廳媒體藝術祭新秀奬

©Honami Yano/Au Praxinoscope

There are a number of regions scattered throughout Japan that practice the tradition of honekami (lit. “biting the bones”). Honekami involves eating the bones that remain after cremation so that the deceased becomes part of you, in an attempt to overcome one’s grief. For better or worse, there were families who practiced this tradition on the island I come from. And in my own first experience with death – the death of my father – I too was encouraged to eat one of his bones, but could not bring myself to do it. Still very young, I had no way to come to terms with and accept my father’s death. My memory of the experience is traumatic; the bone I did not eat stayed with me, as if stuck in my throat, and I found myself unable to express the experience in words or forget it.

An old wartime ammunition dump still stands on the island where I was born. The fact that it was an ammunition dump, rather than an air raid shelter, near my childhood home made me feel that I was on the side that imposed death and ruthless violence, rather than on the side that was subjected to it. Reflecting on this experience as an adult, I found there to be a link between my father’s remains and the ammunition dump, and so I decided to confront honekami again.

Through this project, I wanted to face up to the bones I could not eat before by blurring the boundaries between life and death.

在日本各地有某些地區會舉行「咬骨」(Honekami) 的傳統儀式,這個儀式包括吃下火化後剩下的骨頭,這樣逝者便會成為你的一部份,以試圖撫平一個人的傷痛。無論好壞, 在我來自的那個島嶼上是有一些家庭會這樣做的。在我自己第一次接觸死亡 – 我父親的死亡,我也被鼓勵吃掉火化剩下的⻣頭,但我做不到。那時候的我還很年青,我無法理解及接受父親的逝去,我的那部份記憶是創傷,那塊沒被吃進去的骨頭一直伴隨著我,就似是卡在喉嚨裡,我無法用言語去表達這段經歷,也無法忘記。

在我出生的小島上,一個舊的戰時彈藥庫仍然矗立著,重點是它真的是彈藥庫而非防空洞,它讓我覺得自己是站在死亡與無情暴力的那邊,而非受制於人的一邊。成長後我發現我父親的遺骨與這個彈藥庫的存在是有相當連結的,是故我決定再次面對「咬骨」這件事。

通過是次項目,我想要透過模糊掉生死的邊界去面對那根我未能下咬的⻣頭。

Animator and Director 動畫及導演: YANO Honami
Producer 監製: YAMAMURA Koji
Assistant Producer 助理監製: sanae
Production 製作: Au Praxinoscope
Voice 聲演: TANO Ayamo
Sound Designer 聲音設計: TAKINO Masumi

The Heike Story
平家物語
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Episode 1: “Those Outside the Heike Do Not Matter”
第一回:在平家以外的都不重要

YAMADA Naoko
2021 / TV Animation 電視動畫 / 19:50 (total of 11eps 共十一集)

© The Heike Story Project

This is the first TV anime adaptation of the great classic “The Tale of the Heike”, which was handed down by Biwa Hoshi, the traveling storytellers and had a great influence on literature and theater in later years. Some of the best creators in the industry based this adaptation on the overwhelming narrative style of FURUKAWA Hideo’s modern translation. At the end of the Heian period, the Heike clan is about to achieve prosperity in every aspect of political, military, and financial power. Taira no Shigemori, a man who can see the dead, meets a Biwa Hoshi, a girl named Biwa, who can see the future. Biwa prophesies that his clan will perish soon. Fifteen years of dramatic change in Japan’s history, affecting everyone from aristocratic to samurai society, begin. A story of prayer bridging 800 years, lyrically depicting a great epic poem through the eyes of a young girl.

這是經典作品《平家物語》的第一部電視動畫改編之作;作品由旅行說書人Biwa Hoshi流傳下,對後來的文學作品和戲劇產生了巨大的影響,而行業裡一些優秀的創作人根據古川秀夫的現代翻譯中壓倒性的敍事風格進行了這次改編。在平安時代的末期,平家即將在政治 軍事、財政力量各方面實現繁榮,能看到死人的平重盛遇到一個叫Biwa Hoshi的女孩,她能看到未來。Biwa預言他的家族很快就會滅亡,及後日本歷史上15年的巨變開始了,影響一土中弓竹從貴族到武士社會的每個人。這是一個跨越800年的祈禱故事,通過一個年輕女孩的雙眼去柔情描述一段偉大的史詩。

*The program will show episode 1: “Those Outside the Heike Do Not Matter”
*節目將播放第一回:平家以外的什麼都不重要
*Streaming on Crunchyroll
*在Crunchyroll平台上串流播放

Original Work 原作: “The Heike Story” published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha
Translation 翻譯: FURUKAWA Hideo
Director 導演: YAMADA Naoko
Scenario 場景: YOSHIDA Reiko
Character Creation 角色創作: TAKANO Fumiko
Music 音樂: USHIO Kensuke
Animation Production 動畫製作: Science SARU
Character Design 角色設計: KOJIMA Takashi
Art Director 美術總監: KUBO Tomotaka
Director of Inbetween Animation 連接動畫導演: IMAI Shotaro
Color Design 色彩設計: HASHIMOTO Satoshi
Composite Director 影像合作導演 : IZUMITA Kazuto
Editing 剪接: HIROSE Kiyoshi
Sound Director 聲音導演: KIMURA Eriko
Sound Effects 聲效: KURAHASHI Hiromune
History Supervisor 歷史指導: SATA Yoshihiko
Biwa Supervisor Biwa 指導: GOTO Yukihiro