Yamamoto Eiichi

YAMAMOTO Eiichi (1940, Japan) is an animator, screenwriter and director, working in anime. Together with Tezuka Osamu he founded the Mushi Production animation studio. From 1969 to 1973 he directed the adult anime Animerama trilogy. The third of these, Belladonna of Sadness (1973), was nominated for a Golden Bear at the Berlinale. One Arm (2018), directed with Sugii Gisaburo, premiered at Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

Filmography

(selection) Osu/Male (1962, short), Aru machikado no monogatari/Tales of a Street Corner (1962, short, co-dir), Astro Boy (1964, TV series, co-dir), Astro Boy: the Brave in Space (1964, co-dir), Janguru taitei/Kimba the White Lion (1965, TV series, co-dir), Janguru Taitei/Kimba the White Lion (1966), Sen'ya ichiya monogatari /A Thousand and One Nights (1969), Kureopatra/Cleopatra (1970), Wansa-kun/Little Wansa (1973, TV series), Kanashimi no Beradonna/Belladonna of Sadness (1973), Uchû senkan Yamato/Space Battleship Yamato (1974, TV series), Uchû senkan Yamato III/ Space Battleship Yamato III (1980, TV series), Oshin (1984), Ôdîn - Kôshi hobune stâraito/Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight (1985), Pelican Road Club Culture (1986), By the Time the Moon Rises (1991), Tokai no Butchy (1995, short), Kataude/One Arm (2018, short, co-dir)

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Yamamoto Eiichi at IFFR

One Arm

An eerie erotic short story by Nobel Prize laureate Kawabata Yasunari is turned into a minimalist animation of dazzling beauty.

Yamamoto Eiichi, Sugii Gisaburo

30'
Japan

IFFR 2020