KYOTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

We will be screening animated works that are similar to works of art, including a new omnibus animation of eight works by G9+1, an animation creation group consisting of nine veteran artists who have been active in the field of animation since the dawn of Japanese animation, and one mid-career artist (Toshikatsu Wada), as well as Kihachiro Kawamoto's Winter Days (Fuyu no Hi), which inspired the creation of G9+1, and an animation based on a folk tale written by an Iranian poet in the 12th century.

This work is an animated production in which the town of Shimokawa in Hokkaido and Yoshimoto Kogyo collaborate under the SDGs comprehensive partnership agreement to widely promote the appeal of Shimokawa's specialty product, fruit tomatoes. In this animation, popular comedians from Yoshimoto take on the roles of tomato characters and perform comedy routines.

The cast includes NON STYLE's Ishida and Masao Yoshii as Haruka Eight, Igo Shogi's Fumita and GAG's Hiroyuki as Haruka Nine, Kaeru-tei's Iwakura and Elf's Arakawa as Koyu Tomato, and Suehirogarizu's Mishima and Nanamagari's Hatsuse as North★Sweet.

Category Description

・Anime works which can only be seen here include a new work by G9+1, possibly the "world's oldest" creative animation group of veteran Japanese animation artists and an entertainment anime that creates a kind of new laughter through the fusion of "comedians x anime," with an original script written by comedians and adapted into an anime.