The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) today unveiled the main visual of this year’s Special Focus on Japanese Animation: The World of Masaaki Yuasa.
The deluxe visual consists of the main characters of Yuasa’s past works.
 
In addition, we are pleased to announce that a special four-page leaflet will be given to each Animation Focus screening audience during the festival. Ryusuke Hikawa, the Programming Adviser of the Animation Focus section, provided the text on Yuasa and his works. The leaflet also includes comments from Yuasa for each of the films being screened at TIFF.
 

 
The full line-up of The World of Masaaki Yuasa will be announced at our press conference on September 25, 2018.
The 31st TIFF will take place from October 25 – November 3, 2018 at Roppongi Hills, EX Theater Roppongi, Hibiya Step Square and other venues in Tokyo.
 
Masaaki Yuasa Profile

Born in 1965, Masaaki Yuasa made his feature directorial debut with Mind Game (2004). In 2017, The Night is Short, Walk On Girl won the Animation of the Year award at the Japan Academy Prizes, and Lu Over the Wall won the Cristal for a Feature Film at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. “DEVILMAN crybaby” was distributed worldwide on Netflix in January 2018 to rapturous reviews, attracting many fans around the globe.