Genius Party — Official Trailer

Synopsis

The seven short films making up GENIUS PARTY couldn’t be more diverse, linked only by a high standard of quality and inspiration. Atsuko Fukushima’s intro piece is a fantastic abstraction to soak up with the eyes. Masaaki Yuasa, of MIND GAME and CAT SOUP fame, brings his distinctive and deceptively simple graphic style and dream-state logic to the table with “Happy Machine,” his spin on a child’s earliest year. Shinji Kimura’s spookier “Deathtic 4,” meanwhile, seems to tap into the creepier corners of a child’s imagination and open up a toybox full of dark delights. Hideki Futamura’s “Limit…

Cast & Crew

Directed by Atsuko Fukushima

• Tomoko Kaneda
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• Rinko Kikuchi
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• Taro Yabe
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• Yuya Yagira
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• Nanase Iwai
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• Miki Yamamoto
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