By Naoki Matsuura
Active as an animation director, director, and animation creator.
Member of the Japan Animation Association
Born in Tokyo in 1982, currently residing in Kanagawa.
Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Visual Communication in 2006.
After working in production management at Polyphony Pictures, Production I.G, ROBOT, and others, he became independent.
He has experience in various video and animation productions, including TV, commercials, music videos, exhibitions, and live visuals.
In 2016, he directed the exhibition video for the Japan Pavilion at the Milan Expo, which won a gold medal within the expo.
His first commercial animation as a director was the “Marukome Miso Anime CM.”
Since then, he has also worked on storyboarding and directing for TV series animations.
In 2016, he conducted crowdfunding for his original short film “Fire Making,” raising over 1.7 million yen, which was completed in 2021.
He has screened the film at events, distributed it online, and submitted it to film festivals, receiving nominations and awards both domestically and internationally. He is currently directing the TV anime “Liar Liar,” which will air in 2023.
He is also working as a director for a theatrical animation scheduled for release in 2024.
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TALK LOG
・A grade school student dreaming of becoming a manga artist loved “Doraemon: Nobita’s Great Adventure”
・”AKIRA” is “violent and beautiful”
・”Parasyte” has become a bible for him
・His graduation project “A Drop” is about “a boy accepting the world’s rules”
・A story about a little person inside the stomach: “My original experience regarding tacit understandings”
・Humans bound by premises, deductively
・Matsuura’s works that use sound as a motif
・Inspired by Osamu Tezuka’s “Buddha” during middle school
・Does the information density of the anime “AKIRA” connect to today’s anime production?
・The power of Geinoh Yamashirogumi in “AKIRA”
・Brother Kura, who participated in the music for “Morning of the Moon” and “A Drop”
・”Half of a movie is music,” by director Mamoru Oshii
・Things that only he notices in space
・The original experience of “Morning of the Moon” while working as a telephone operator
・”Nothing that Japanese anime has cultivated is being utilized,” by director Satoshi Kon
・What director Satoshi Kon said directly to him
・Words from Nobuhiro Aihara
・The meaning of “understanding” in the Japanese anime environment
・I think there should be values beyond just “fun” and “easy to understand”
・What remains is expression, and that is tied to physicality
・An era where it’s difficult to depict villains
・”The Congress” was a film that demanded viewers to think
・He became hooked on “Five Star Stories”
・An episode experienced shortly after graduating university with director Mamoru Oshii
・Gained courage in the way of being a “director”
・Glad he did production management!
・Reflecting on his four years at Production I.G
・An episode with director Mamoru Oshii and Atsushi Takeuchi
・”You can save what you want to do for next time”
・Director Mamoru Oshii, loved by all the staff
・About “Fire Making”
・The persuasive power conveyed from the blacksmith scene
・A work created by one producer and one director
・An episode about UQiYO’s participation
・Let’s discuss the relationship between works and physicality based on “Fire Making”
・The lost body seen from the contrast structure of the development of mechanical civilization and old civilization
・Wanting to pick up what is lost there
・Being moved by the sharpness of scissors
・What is born between the body and objects
・Observing what has continued for 150 years
・A little crowdfunding story with Kappi
・It’s better for the heart that feels beauty to increase than for beautiful things to increase
・Working hard towards the work scheduled for release in 2024
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