Tokyo University Of The Arts Has Made Japan A Hotbed For Indie Animation
The school benefits from the involvement of Japanese indie icon Koji Yamamura who helped start the animation program.
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Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Atsushi Wada
Wada is a key figure in Japan’s contemporary indie animation scene.
‘Zdravstvuite!’ by Yoko Yuki
On a summer day an strange man who teaches Russian at the beach took me to a town.
The Meditative and Mysterious Films of Tatsuhiro Ariyoshi
Born in 1984 in Aichi Prefecture Japan, Tatsuhiro Ariyoshi is an independent animator who lives and works in Tokyo. He graduated from the Musashino Art University (Department of Imaging Arts & Sciences) in 2009, followed by a graduate degree from the animation department at the Tokyo University of the Arts.