Tatsuki Fujimoto's work is in awards season on several fronts. The Look Back anime film won the Kineko Grand Prix Teens Feature award, the live-action Look Back opens in North American theaters on December 30, and the anthology Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 is nominated for a 2026 International Emmy in the Short-Form Series category.
Tatsuki Fujimoto's name appears across several projects rather than one. The newest item is a win for the anime film of Look Back, which took the Kineko Grand Prix Teens Feature award at the Kineko International Film Festival, a category judged by teenagers. The same one-shot has a live-action adaptation directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, and its coverage has been steady: a 12-minute ovation after its Venice screening in September, the UNIMED Award from the Venice student jury, and now a North American release through GKIDS on December 30, with a wider release on January 15.
Elsewhere in the fall, the anthology Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 was nominated in the Short-Form Series category at the 2026 International Emmy Awards, with winners announced in New York City on November 23. Fujimoto also spoke about how the Chainsaw Man manga was made, telling director Kohei Kadowaki that drawing 19 pages a week left no time to plan before storyboarding. In a Da Vinci Magazine interview, he said he wanted the manga to leave readers with the feeling he got from The Big Lebowski.
Away from Look Back, the Chainsaw Man adaptation continues to expand. The 2023 first stage play streamed free on the Jump Channel from June 26 to 28 ahead of a second stage play, Chainsaw Man: The Stage: Reze Arc, running in Tokyo and Kyoto from July 25 to August 12, 2026. In June, MAPPA released a second teaser PV for Chainsaw Man: Assassin Arc and announced a smartphone game project, with a new Maximum the Hormone song as the arc's opening theme.
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The anime film of Tatsuki Fujimoto's Look Back one-shot won the Kineko Grand Prix Teens Feature award at the Kineko International Film Festival in Tokyo on Tuesday. The category covers Japanese and foreign films for ages 13 to 18, and judges of the same age pick the winner. Kiyotaka Oshiyama directed the film at Studio Durian, with Yumi Kawai and Mizuki Yoshida voicing Fujino and Kyomoto.
GKIDS will screen the live-action Look Back film in select North American theaters on December 30, with a wider release on January 15. The film opened in Japan on September 11 at #5 and earned 144,146,120 yen in its first three days. Hirokazu Kore-eda directed, edited, and wrote the screenplay, with Aju Makita and Natsuki Deguchi in the lead roles.
The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the 2026 International Emmy nominees on Wednesday. Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 is nominated in the Short-Form Series category and the My Melody & Kuromi stop-motion series in Kids: Animation. Winners are announced in New York City on November 23. Both are also prize holders elsewhere: two 17-26 shorts went to Bucheon, and My Melody & Kuromi took Best Animation at Singapore's Asian Academy Creative Awards.
Tatsuki Fujimoto told director Kohei Kadowaki that drawing 19 pages a week left no room to write a plot before storyboarding, so he went straight to the name and trusted the characters. He said he enjoys things slipping out of his control. In an earlier Da Vinci Magazine interview, he said he wanted the manga to leave readers with the feeling he got from The Big Lebowski.
The live-action film of Tatsuki Fujimoto's Look Back one-shot manga won the UNIMED Award from the student jury at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival. Director Hirokazu Kore-eda accepted the award at a ceremony during the festival, which ran September 2-12. The film opened in Japan on September 11. GKIDS will release it in theaters in 2026 in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Ireland.
The live-action Look Back, directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, received a standing ovation lasting more than 12 minutes after its screening at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on Sep 7. The film, one of 21 competing for the Golden Lion, stars Natsuki Deguchi, Aju Makita, Furi Nanase, and Rokka Okada. It opens in Japanese theaters on Sep 11.
The official website for the live-action Look Back film released a new clip Friday showing Kyomoto and Fujino creating manga together. Hirokazu Kore-eda directs, edits, and writes the screenplay. Aju Makita plays Kyomoto, and Natsuki Deguchi plays Fujino. The film opens September 11 in Japan, with GKIDS releasing it in 2026 in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Ireland.
The first stage play adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto's 'Chainsaw Man', performed in 2023, will be streamed for free on the Jump Channel from June 26 to 28. The free release commemorates the upcoming second stage play, 'Chainsaw Man: The Stage: Reze Arc', which runs in Tokyo and Kyoto from July 25 to August 12, 2026.
MAPPA released the second teaser PV for Chainsaw Man: Assassin Arc on June 19 during the studio's 15th anniversary lineup stream on YouTube. The PV shows assassins from around the world moving to target protagonist Denji, with glimpses of new characters. Alongside the PV, MAPPA announced a smartphone game project for Chainsaw Man. The opening theme for the arc is a new song by Maximum the Hormone titled ALL THE LYNCH!! ALL THE MINCE!!. A 1-minute 29-second version of the song plays in an opening movie produced by MAPPA. Maximum the Hormone's Maximum the Ryo-kun said the full version is already complete at about 4 minutes 30 seconds, calling it a masterpiece and a future staple of the band's live performances. The smartphone game's official X account is running a follow-and-retweet giveaway to commemorate the announcement. The Assassin Arc was announced last year as the story following the Reze Arc. The theatrical film Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc, released in September 2025, recorded 7.1 million domestic viewers and 10.8 billion yen at the Japanese box office, with a worldwide total exceeding 29.78 billion yen.
GKIDS released an English-subtitled trailer and posters for the live-action film adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto's Look Back one-shot manga. The film, directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, is in post-production and will open in Japan and in select international markets in 2026.