YÅ ji Kuri Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

YÅ ji Kuri Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

YŠji Kuri (久里洋二, Kuri YŠji, born April 9, 1928) is a

Japanese cartoonist and independent filmmaker. An influential figure

in Japanese independent animation, he was the unofficial leader and

most prolific of the "Animation Association of

Three"(アニメーション三人㠮会, AnimÄ"shon Sannin no Kai)

collective who kick-started the renaissance of modern-styled,

independently made, adult-aimed animation in early 1960s Japan. He is

known internationally for the very black comedy of his films, with the

typically naïve style of his cartooning often belying the surreal,

obscene and disturbing situations they depict (though he has worked in

a variety of styles and mediums, including pixilation); this made them

a favourite among the fervently counter-cultural audiences, which

included such filmmakers as René Laloux, of the first few years of

the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, and in a 1967

publication he was considered to be "the most significant" and "the

only Japanese animator whose work is known in the West" (which is to

disregard the TÅ ei Animation features and Astro Boy series that were

first seen in the West around the same time that Kuri's first several

films were and mentioned in passing in the same publication, though

these were not known as works of an individual and characteristic

filmmaker and often had their Japanese origin played down). He is also

known in Japan for his comics, a collection of which earned him the

1958 Bungeishunjū Manga Award. Though now retired from filmmaking he

continues to illustrate and to teach animation at Laputa Art Animation

School(アート・アニメーション㠮㠡㠄㠕㠪学校, Āto

AnimÄ"shon no Chiisana GakkÅ ). In 2012 he received a Lifetime

Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest

Zagreb.Kuri made over 40 short films between 1960 and 1981; some of

the best known are:
YÅ ji Kuri Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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