Masaaki Yuasa

Uh, who was the director's name?

Uh, you are looking at Masaki Yuasa.

Okay.

So yeah, so we've watched something which, uh, like, is by the same creator, obviously.

So with that, ashin! okay so uh per the usual um like to go over kind of the the production and the staff uh part of it first so um made in debuted uh september of 2021 at the venice film festival and then had the theatrical run in japan in may of 2022 um Produced by Science Saru.

I believe this is the last project that Masaaki Yuasa worked with Science Saru before departing.

But he is credited as the director.

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There was something in his work where I felt like he's doing something with the medium where he edits in a way that is really particular to animation and creates this kind of weird disorientation in the world.

And I also really connected with Masaaki Yuasa's work.

who does a lot of work with stretching bodies but I think in his work and this now comes only through reflecting later it's like it didn't feel like it's just some kind of cool aesthetic gimmick it felt like he's expressing something really particular with it and what he's expressing I think is you get into the sense of a physical experience of living where it's like through this accentuated physicality, you feel the excitement of a character or you feel the sadness of a character.

And I think this is kind of what I stuck with in the beginning.

Inuo.

The same Inuo, as it turns out, from the Masaki Yuasa movie from a few years ago.

Yeah, yeah.

And we were like, wait a minute.