This program welcomes animation director Kenji IWAISAWA and character designer/chief animation director Keisuke KOJIMA to share the background of the anime film 100 Meters.

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GUESTS

IWAISAWA Kenji

Born in 1981 in Tokyo. After graduating from high school, he studied under director Teruo Ishii. He began his career in live-action film production while also creating animation on the side. In 2008, he completed his first animated work “Fukuraicho, Tunnel Roji no Otoko”. Since then, he has continued to produce short films mainly in animation, eventually spending seven years completing his feature-length animated film “On-Gaku: Our Sound”. His feature debut, “On-Gaku: Our Sound” received widespread acclaim both in Japan and abroad, including a nomination for the Annie Award—known as the Academy Awards of animation—and the Grand Prize at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, among numerous other honors.

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KOJIMA Keisuke

KOJIMA Keisuke (born in 1991) is an animator, director, and filmmaker. After graduating from high school, he joined the animation studio GAINAX and later worked at MADHOUSE and other major studios. His notable credits include ”One-Punch Man” (2015), ”Babylon” (2019–2020), ”My Isekai Life: I Gained a Second Character Class and Became the Strongest Sage in the World” (2022), and ”Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End” (2023). Dedicated to the digitalization of animation production and the development of new workflows, he authored Anime Production Techniques with CLIP STUDIO PAINT (KADOKAWA). He also made a significant contribution to the present film ”100 Meters”.