Dreams Into Drawing

Japanese: Yumeminoe｜Chinese: 梦见之画 | Spanish: Sueños en dibujo | German: Traumzeichnung
| Short animation | August 2019 | Japan | 10'10" | 4K, HD, DCP | 16:9, Vista | 5.1ch, Stereo | Japanese, English | Information | Sketches | Storyboards | Stills | Official Site | | Trailer | On Demand Jp | On Demad Jp+En| On Demand En |

Dreams into Drawing is based on KUWAGATA KEISAI's Ways to Sketc and the short story ‘A Carp That Appeared in My Dream’ from UEDA AKINARI's Tales of Moonlight and Rain. KEISAI himself appears as a character in the animation. English Narration, English translation: ROBERT CAMPBELL
(Japanese Narration: NAGATSUKA Keishi)
Based on UEDA AKINARI ‘Muo no Rigyo’, Tales of Moon and Rain (Ugetsu Monogatari, 1776)
KUWAGATA KEISAI Ways to Sketch Animals (1797) Ways to Sketch People (1799)
Animation: YAMAMURA KOJI, YANO HONAMI
Digital Work: YAMAMURA KOJI, SANAE
Music: SYZYGYS, 43-Microtone Organ SHIMIZU HITOMI, Violin NISHIDA HIROMI
Sound Design: KASAMATSU KOJI
Supported by NIJL Arts Initiative, Tokyo University of the Arts
Production: Yamamura Animation
Script, Editing & Direction: YAMAMURA KOJI



The painter KUWAGATA KEISAI lived over 200 years ago. He illustrated Ways to Sketch, a series of picture books depicting humans and animals, all richly expressed.
One day he was sketching a carp when suddenly he fell asleep and, in his dream, transfigured into a carp. The carp was enjoying his swim, but when a fisherman caught him things suddenly took a turn for the worse...

Awards: Best International Animated Short Film: 1st Animation Celebration Fest, US, Wisconsin, 2020.10
Best Animation: 15th Sapporo International Short Film Festival & Market, Japan, Sapporo, 2020.10
Best Animated Short Film (from 1 to 10 min): 11th International Animation Film Festival - Golden Kuker Sofia, Bulgaria, 2020.09
Silver award: 13th Xiamen International Animation Festival, China, 2020.11
Best Arts award: 13th Xiamen International Animation Festival, China, 2020.11
Best Animated Short in the “Animated Documentaries”, 3rd Palm Spring International Animation Festival & Expo, US, CA, 2020.12
Audience Award: 10th Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival, UK, 2020.10
Online Fun Award: 15th Sapporo International Short Film Festival, Japan, 2020.11
Special Mention of the Jury: “for the artistic value of animation”: 18th Imaginaria – Int. animated film festival, Italy, Conversano, 2020.08
Honorable Mention: 3rd TIAF - Tbilisi International Animation Festival, Georgia, 2020.12
Jury Selections: 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival, Japan, 2020.09

Official selection: 23rd New York International Children's Film Festival, US, 2020.02
25th Open Russian animated films Festival, Russian, 2020.03
20th MONSTRA - Lisbon Animation Festival, Portugal, 2020.03
3rd Moscow Shorts, Russia, Moscow, 2020.03
11th NonStop Barcelona Animation, International Animation Film Festival, Spain, 2020.03
7th Setting Sun Film Festival, Australia, Yarraville, 2020
15th Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival, US, 2020.04
1st Animation Celebration Fest, US, 2020.04
13th International Animation Festival Fest Anča, Slovakia, Žilina, 2020.07
10th International Animation Festival SUPERTOON, Croatia, Šibenik, 2020.07
4th Still Voices Short Film Festival, Ireland, Longford, 2020.08
6th Animaphix International Animated Film Festival, Italy, Bagheria, 2020.07-08
8th La Guarimba Film Festival, Italy, Calabria, 2020.08
18th Imaginaria – International animated film festival, Italy, Conversano, 2020.08
4th MalatestaShort Film Festival, Italy, Cesena, 2020.08
6th Montreal International Animation Film Festival - ANIMAZE, Canada, Montreal, 2020.08
9th American Documentary And Animation Film Festival, US, 2020.09
¥11th International Animation Film Festival - Golden Kuker Sofia, Bulgaria, 2020.09
16th World Festival of Animated Film Varna, Bulgaria, Varna, 2020.09
16th Korean Independent Animation Festival Indie-AniFest, Korea, Seoul, 2020.09
15th Sapporo International Short Film Festival & Market, Japan, Sapporo, 2020,10
15th ANIMATOU, Switzerland, Genève, 2020.10
13th International Animated Film Festival Animator, Poland, Poznan, 2020.10
3rd ANIMAFILM International Animation Festival, Azerbaijan, Baku, 2020.10
7th Goa Short Film Festival, India, Maharashtra, 2020.10
10th Pune Short Film Festival, India, Maharashtra, 2020.10-11
8th International Short Film Festival Canton, China, GuangDong, 2020.10-11
22nd Wiesbaden International Festival of Animation, Germany, Wiesbaden, 2020.11
13th Xiamen International Animation Festival, China, Xiamen, 2020.11
27th International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima 2020, Poland, Kraków, 2020.11
2nd Feinaki Beijing Animation Week, Beijing, 2020.11
37th Chicago International Children's Film Festival, US, Illinois, 2020.11
7th New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2020, Japan, 2020.11
6th Taichung International Animation Festival, Taiwan, Taichung, 2020.11-12
17th Animateka International Animated Film Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2020.11-12
12th Los Angeles Animation Festival, US, CA, 2020.12
18th MUMIA, Brazil, 2020.12
3rd Palm Spring International Animation Festival & Expo, US, CA, 2020.12
13th Piccolo Festival Dell'Animazione, Italy: Pordenone, Udine, Gorizia, Trieste and Dobbia, 2020.12
3rd TIAF - Tbilisi International Animation Festival, Georgia, Tbilisi, 2020.12
1st Alibag Short Film Festival, India, Alibag, Maharashtra, 2021.01
8th Insomnia International Animation Film Festival, Russian, Moscow and Kaluga, 2021.07
ICFilmFestival, US, 2021.11, 2022.07-08

Semi finalist, Nomination, Panprama
Animation category nomination: 74th Maichi Film Awards. 2019.12
Honourable Mention: 5th Asia South East-Short Film Festival 2020 SPRING, Cambodia, 2020.04
Semi finalist: New York Animation Film Awards, 2020.06
Semi finalist: 24th Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, US, Providence, 2020.08
Japanese Animation Today: 18th Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Japan, 2020.08