Genius Party
Directed by Atsuko Fukushima, Yoji Fukuyama, Hideki Futamura, Shoji Kawamori, Shinji Kimura, Shinichiro Watanabe, Masaaki Yuasa
Written by Shinichiro Watanabe, Yoji Fukuyama, Hideki Futamura, Shoji Kawamori, Masaaki Yuasa
The seven short films making up GENIUS PARTY couldn’t be more diverse, linked only by a high standard of quality and inspiration. Atsuko Fukushima’s intro piece is a fantastic abstraction to soak up with the eyes. Masaaki Yuasa, of MIND GAME and CAT SOUP fame, brings his distinctive and deceptively simple graphic style and dream-state logic to the table with “Happy Machine,” his spin on a child’s earliest year. Shinji Kimura’s spookier “Deathtic 4,” meanwhile, seems to tap into the creepier corners of a child’s imagination and open up a toybox full of dark delights. Hideki Futamura’s “Limit Cycle” conjures up a vision of virtual reality, while Yuji Fukuyama’s "Doorbell" and "Baby Blue" by Shinichiro Watanabe use understated realism for very surreal purposes. And Shoji Kawamori, with “Shanghai Dragon,” takes the tropes and conventions of traditional anime out for very fun joyride.
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Miki Yamamoto
Chen Gonglong (Shanghai Dragon segment) (voice)
Lu Ningjuan
Meihua (Shanghai Dragon segment) (voice)
Kenyu Horiuchi
Crane Shumer (Shanghai Dragon segment) (voice)
Kenji Utsumi
Sai (Shanghai Dragon segment) (voice)
山本俊介
Da Niu (Shanghai Dragon segment) (voice)
Hong Bo
TV Hero (Shanghai Dragon segment) (voice)
Gao Kewen
TV Heroine (Shanghai Dragon segment) (voice)
Wang Chun
Additional Voices (Shanghai Dragon segment) (voice)
Shouhei Fukuda
Glasses Minion (Shanghai Dragon segment) (voice)
子系 卓
Additional Voices (Shanghai Dragon segment) (voice)
裴 杰运
Additional Voices (Shanghai Dragon segment) (voice)
平昌浩
Additional Voices (Shanghai Dragon segment) (voice)
