Masterclass: The career and creative works of Masaaki Yuasa

In this masterclass, director Masaaki Yuasa will enjoy talking about animation including his career and creative works with moderator Alexis Hunot and the audience.

Free entry with reservation using this form. Priority is given to Full Trip Pass owners.

The masterclass will be held in Japanese with consecutive interpreting into English.

At Animest you can see five of Masaaki Yuasa's animated feature films.  
You can check each film and their screening schedule here
https://www.animest.ro/en/retrospectiva-masaaki-yuasa

About Masaaki Yuasa:

After graduating from the Department of Fine Arts at Kyushu Sangyo University, Yuasa joined Ajia-do Animation Works and studied under Tsutomu Shibayama. Later he worked as a freelancer. He was part of the staff for the TV series Chibi Maruko-chan and Crayon Shin-chan. His directorial debut, Mind Game, won numerous awards including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Script at the Montreal Fantasia International Film Festival. He has also received many awards for television shows he directed, and for Lu Over The Wall (Cristal for Best Feature Film at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival). Night is Short, Walk On Girl won not only the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year, but was also the first film directed by a Japanese director to win the Grand Prize for Best Animated Feature at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. He won worldwide fame also thanks to the anime series DEVILMAN crybaby and Japan Sinks 2020. His film Ride Your Wave won Best Animated Film at the Shanghai International Film Festival, and many national and international awards, including the Best Animated Feature Film at the Sitges Film Festival. In INU-OH, he took on the difficult task of creating a musical movie set in Muromachi-era Japan, as his love for challenges knows no bounds. This earned Yuasa his first invitation to the Venice Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival. His unbridled imagination and dynamic drawing style have attracted attention both inside and outside the animation industry. Yuasa is one of the most notable and talented animation directors in the business today.