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‘Your Name,’ ‘The Garden of Words’ Artist Yoshitoshi Shinomiya Makes Feature Directorial Debut With ‘A New Dawn’ (EXCLUSIVE)
The Japan-France work-in-progess will be showcased at this year's Annecy Animation Showcase, part of the Marché du Film's Animation Day.
Tokyo-based Asmik Ace(“Inu-Oh,” ” Tekkonkinkreet”) and France’s Miyu Productions(“Chicken for Linda,” “Dozens of Norths”) are producing the feature, which the former will distribute globally. Key artists working on the film include character designer Utsushita, art director Akiko Majima, and composer Shuta Hasunuma. Describing the film’s primary visual influences, the director explained, “In developing the scenario, I learned that the paper, seaweed, and pigments used to make Japanese paintings had commonalities with fireworks before the Edo period.
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