Kohei Kadowaki's feature 'We Are Aliens,' which he wrote and directed, opens in Japan on September 25 after premiering at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight and screening at Annecy. He describes the film as drawing on his own childhood.
Kohei Kadowaki wrote and directed the feature 'We Are Aliens,' which opens September 25. The film follows Tsubasa, a shy boy, and Akitaro, a class idol, across a 30-year friendship in a rural Heisei-era town. Kadowaki, born in 1996, says roughly 20 to 30 percent of the film's episodes come from his own experience, including a first-love episode.
The movie premiered at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight and later screened at Annecy. Kadowaki attributes its visual approach to hybrid rotoscoping, a method he chose to capture childlike gestures with an untrained crew. The technique was developed over five years with a mostly inexperienced animation team. In his account, the film is assembled backward from one mid-film turn, with emotion paced like a roller coaster.
Coverage of 'We Are Aliens' has shifted from its festival premiere and production method to Kadowaki's own biography as a source. The most recent story connects the film's childhood material to his direct experience. A separate item from June 24 lists a nationwide audition for the OPALIS project judged by film director Rikiya Imaizumi and animation artist Kohei Kadokawa. The name Kadokawa appears in that story, not Kadowaki.
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Director Kohei Kadowaki's feature "We Are Aliens" opens September 25, following Tsubasa, a shy boy, and Akitaro, a class idol, across a 30-year friendship in a rural Heisei-era town. Kadowaki, born in 1996, wrote and directed the film. He says roughly 20 to 30 percent of its episodes come from his own experience, including a first-love episode.
Director Kohei Kadowaki discusses his debut feature 'We Are Aliens,' which premiered at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight and screens at Annecy. The film follows two boys over 20 years and uses a hybrid rotoscoping approach to capture natural movement, developed over five years with a mostly inexperienced animation team.
The OPALIS talent discovery project, a collaboration between Ten Carat and Music Ray'n, has launched its second-phase nationwide audition. Film director Rikiya Imaizumi and animation artist Kohei Kadokawa will judge the final round. Successful candidates receive free training in acting, voice, dance, and more, plus observation opportunities at productions involving the agencies' talents.