Kawajiri Yoshiyuki's Cherry and Virgin Wins Two Fantasia Awards
The double win at Fantasia, one of North America's largest genre festivals, puts Kawajiri's rotoscope love story in front of a wider international audience.
Reporting from 1 source: Cinema Today.
Director Kawajiri Yoshiyuki's feature film Cherry and Virgin won the Audience Award and the Gold Prize in the feature animation category at the 30th Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal. The film, a rotoscope love story about an erotic manga artist and a fujoshi, also recently took the Special Jury Prize in the Satoshi Kon Competition.
Kawajiri Yoshiyuki's Cherry and Virgin took the Audience Award and the Gold Prize in the feature animation category at the 30th Fantasia International Film Festival, held in Montreal. The festival also gave the film the Special Jury Prize in the Satoshi Kon Competition in the Animation Plus category, announced recently, making it a double award achievement.
The film follows Honda Ryo, an erotic manga artist struggling with his work, and Enomoto Ami, a fujoshi who failed as a professional writer and avoids real men. Both around 30 and inexperienced in real romance, they meet by chance and learn the pain and value of living with others.
Like Kawajiri's earlier short A Japanese Boy Who Draws, the film uses rotoscope, building animation from live-action footage. It mixes live-action and manga elements, with designs from multiple creators appearing in single scenes.
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- Cinema Today 快挙！映画『CHERRY AND VIRGIN』ファンタジア国際映画祭で観客賞&金賞に輝く