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Taxi to the Moon Taxi to the Moon

Anime veteran Tomoyuki Niho directed the new music video “Taxi to the Moon” for Japanese band Penthouse.

This brief, catchy, upbeat track is paired with Niho’s distinctively minimal, rough visual style, featuring exaggerated animation that seamlessly complements the whimsical narrative of a woman taking an unconventional cab ride to the moon.

Niho has contributed to numerous anime productions, including key animation on Masaaki Yuasa classics such as The Tatami Galaxy, Lu Over the Wall, and the acclaimed series Ping Pong. Other credits include Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Jujutsu Kaisen, Lupin the 3rd Part V, Berserk: The Golden Age Arc II – The Battle for Doldrey, and Yasuke.

His indie animated short, Kamigoroshi: Prologue, premiered at Montreal’s Fantasia Festival last summer. The film is intended to serve as the prologue to a full-length feature that he is currently animating by himself.

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Chris Robinson

Chris Robinson is a writer and Artistic Director of the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF). Robinson has authored thirteen books including Between Genius and Utter Illiteracy: A Story of Estonian Animation (2006), Ballad of a Thin Man: In Search of Ryan Larkin (2008), and Japanese Animation: Time Out of Mind (2010). He also wrote the screenplay for the award-winning animation short, Lipsett Diaries.