Masaaki Yuasa

Yuasa Masaaki (1965, Japan) graduated from Kyushu Sangyo University, majoring in Fine Arts. He started his career at Ajia-do, an animation studio in Tokyo. He then became a freelancer and made his first directorial work, Mind Game (2004), which won awards including the Animation Division Grand Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival. In 2014 he founded a new animation studio called Science Saru. His feature film Lu over the Wall (2017) won the Cristal for a Feature Film in Annecy. Night is Short, Walk On Girl (2017) won the Grand Prize in Ottawa. Yuasa is known for his wild free-form style.

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