Masaaki Kamada

Masaaki Kamada

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Masaaki Kamada (鎌田匡晃) is a Senior CG Designer with Japanese animation studio Toei Animation. He has received numerous awards, including the VFX-JAPAN Award 2017 for Excellent Motion Picture for 125 Years Memory.

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Masaaki Kamada

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Angry Rice Wives
Visual Effects Supervisor
In August, 1918, Matsuura Ito lives in a coastal village of Toyama with her husband and three children. During the summer, there wasn't much fish to catch, so her husband has been far away from home to catch fish. To support herself and her children, Ito carries goods from ships like the other women in the village. Meanwhile, the residents encounter rising prices for rice. The women are unable to feed their family due to the high prices of rice. The women ask a nearby rice store to sell rice at lower prices, but it fails. The price of rice continues to rise daily. Due to an incident, Ito and the other village women step up to the plate.
Sakura Guardian in the North
Visual Effects
The film follows the relationship between a mother and her son. In 1945, the mother played by Sayuri Yoshinaga fled with her two sons from the Russians to Hokkaido. In 1972, her son played by Masato Sakai returns to Japan after finding success in the U.S.
Temple
Visual Effects Supervisor
Tres turistas estadounidenses siguen un misterioso mapa en las profundidades de las junglas de Japón en busca de un antiguo templo. Cuando los espíritus los atrapan, su aventura se convierte rápidamente en una horrible pesadilla.
Shippu Rondo
Visual Effects
An illegal biological weapon K-55 is stolen from a university lab. The university lab can't even call the police because the secret nature of the weapon. The school lab then receives a message stating that the entire country is now being held hostage and they must pay a ransom of 300 million yen.
125 Years Memory
Visual Effects Director
Two historical incidents that deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey are connected in this story of friendship and compassion: In the night of 16 September 1890 the Turkish frigate Ertuğrul is caught up in a typhoon and sinks off the Japanese coast. Risking their own lives, local villagers are able to rescue 69 Turkish sailors. Although being very poor and having hardly to eat, the villagers share what little they have with strangers from a country 9,000 kilometers away. 95 years later, during the Iran-Iraq War, more than 300 Japanese are stranded in Tehran. In the morning of 19 March 1985 a Turkish Airlines aircraft takes off for Tehran to evacuate the Japanese. But the remaining Turks at Tehran Mehrabad Airport still need to be convinced that they won't be able to board their own country's rescue flight.