Ryo Okawara

Ryo Okawara

Birth : , Yokohama, Japan

History

Born in 1986 in Yokohama. He graduated in 2009 from the Department of Graphic Design, Tama Art University, and in 2012 from the Department of Animation, Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. He is a freelance animation director and illustrator. His 2012 film, "A Wind Egg", was awarded the Lotte Reiniger Promotion Award for Animated Film at the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film. Other films include the collaborative work "Orchestra" (2008) and "Animal Dance" (2009). His work has been shown at animation festivals in Hiroshima, Toronto, Ottawa, and Annecy.

Profile

Ryo Okawara

Movies

Pretending to forget
Pretending to forget
Animation
Animation film celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Senba Center Building. Based on the manga "A manga in the Semba Center Building" by You Machida. One day, manga artist YOU Machida received a request to draw the Semba Center Building, which was celebrating its 50th anniversary. This is the story of a quiet dialogue between a manga artist who has suffered from depression in the past and the Senba Center Building, a generous old commercial facility that has lived for 50 years in the middle of Osaka, over a four-day period.
Pretending to forget
Pretending to forget
Director
Animation film celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Senba Center Building. Based on the manga "A manga in the Semba Center Building" by You Machida. One day, manga artist YOU Machida received a request to draw the Semba Center Building, which was celebrating its 50th anniversary. This is the story of a quiet dialogue between a manga artist who has suffered from depression in the past and the Senba Center Building, a generous old commercial facility that has lived for 50 years in the middle of Osaka, over a four-day period.
Sugar Lump
Sugar Lump
Director
A conflicted and rebellious kid lives in a burning house with his parents and struggles to find his way in a seemingly wacky world of talking raccoons and other societal oddities.
Adventures in Beauty Wonderland
Adventures in Beauty Wonderland
Animation
A Wind Egg
A Wind Egg
Director
The film is about a family, that runs a chicken farm. The boy hankers after birds and his little sister keeps an eye on him. The father loves eggs. The mother loves somebody else. In the family fixture, each member stays there with bias or secrets.
Walls
Walls
Director
A man walks in a crowd. He cannot stand the crowd but to cover his ears. Then it disappears and he gets lost in a white void space. In that space there is no other man but himself. He had nothing to identify himself and his existence was to come to naught. He starts to struggle to get away from there.
Animal Dance
Animal Dance
Director
Short animated film by Ryo Okawara
Insomniac
Insomniac
Director
Short animated film by Ryo Okawara.