ORIKASA Ryo

Born in Ibaraki, Japan, 1986. "Datum point" (2015) based on a poem by Japanese poet Yoshiro Ishihara, won the Golden Zagreb Award at Animafest Zagreb 2016. "Miserable Miracle" (2023) inspired by Henri Michaux's book of poetry and drawings of the same name, was co-produced by Miyu Productions (France), the National Film Board of Canada (Canada) and NEW DEER (Japan), winning the Grand Prize for Short Animation at the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2023. In 2025, as the second installment of the Yanai Initiative's "Bungaku Bideo" project, the film "The Graffiti" (2025), based on the poem of Makoto Takayanagi, was completed and won the Off-Limits award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.