I am honored to receive this award.
I would like to express my gratitude to everyone at Tokyo TDC and the selection committee.
The moment the first gleam of sunlight trickled in gently stirring the folds of a shallow sleep—that was when the graffiti appeared . . .
Installment #2 in the “Bungaku Bideo” series fusing Japanese literature and animation, Ryo Orikasa’s hypnotic animated short “The Graffiti” brings to life a prose poem by Makoto Takayanagi, read here by the poet himself.
Credit:
Bungaku Bideo 2
Based on the poem “Rakugaki”(1999) by Takayanagi Makoto
Text & Voice：Makoto Takayanagi
Direction & Animation：Ryo Orikasa
Sound Design：Masumi Takino
Sound Mixing：Aoi Studio (Katsu Nakajima, Aoi Kobayashi)
Voice Recording：Waseda International House of Literature, Fukasawa Taisei
Production：The Yanai Initiative at UCLA + Waseda University
Planning & English Translation：Michael Emmerich
Producer：Ryo Orikasa
Project Managers：Yumi Jōkō, Sanae Yamazaki
DCP：Bart.lab
Ryo Orikasa
Animation Filmmaker. “Datum point” (2015) based on a poem by Japanese poet Yoshiro Ishihara, won the Golden Zagreb Award at Animafest Zagreb 2016. “Miserable Miracle” (2023) inspired by Henri Michaux’s book, was co-produced by Miyu Productions (France), the National Film Board of Canada (Canada) and NEW DEER (Japan), winning the Grand Prize at the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2023. In 2025, “The Graffiti” based on the poem by Makoto Takayanagi, was completed as the second installment of the Yanai Initiative’s ”Bungaku Bideo” project.