Japanese-English Pictionary

| Short animation | 1989 | Japan | 12'00" | 16mm, HD, 4K | Standard | Mono | No dialogue, subtitles: Japanese and English | Storyboards | Drawings | Objects | Stills | Trailer | On Demand |

Direction, Animation and Script: Yamamura Koji
Music: Kurosawa Jun



Both in English and Japanese, words develop in parallel from "A" to "Z"(from "A" to "Nn" in Japanese syllabary) taking the last syllable of the previous word. Ant-Take off-F..., Ari-Ririku-Ku... Along with the developments of those words, images metamorphoses using various animation technique so to be a pictorial encyclopedia of animation technique.

あり　りりく　くだもの　のど　どう　うちのめす　すうじ　じくずれ　れんしゅう　うか　かじょう　うみ　みずくさ　さんかく　くう　うみがめ　め　めだま　まるた　たいほう　うなずく　くんしょう　うろこ　こうてい　いんたい　いと　と　とりなおし　しんか　かくせんそう　うき　きあい　いのち　ちきゅう　うま　まぶた　たいこ　こうぶつ　つな　なす　すりらあ　あか　かも　もぞうひん
Ant takeoff fruit throat trunk knockdown numeral landslide exercise emergence excess aquaticplant triangle eat turtle eye eyeball log gun nod decorations scale emperor retirement thread door retake evolution nuclear rainy yell life earth horse eyelid drum mineral line eggplant thriller red drake ersatZ

Award: Special Jury Prize Award: Image Forum Festival '90, Tokyo

Official Selection: Tampele Short Film Festival, Finland
2nd Shanghai International Animation Film Festival 1989, China