Yuichi Ito
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Biography
Yuichi Ito 伊藤有壱 (1961-) is a Japanese animation artist. He was born in Tokyo. He graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Design in 1985. He is a director of the Japan Animation Association. He is a professor at the Department of Animation, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. He is a visiting professor at the Department of Character Art, Faculty of Arts, Osaka University of Arts. He is the representative director of Itoon Co., Ltd. Not to be confused with the animator of the same name 伊藤優一 (different kanji).
Known For

Button Nose is a little girl who is home alone for a few days when a robot comes to gather strawberries. She is so excited by his spaceship she accidentally starts it, and goes on a voyage to his planet. When she lands she is brought before the king, who is a distant relative of hers and invites her to spend some time on the planet.
Dream Star Button Nose
Red ribbon of a double helix is the bond to connect the girls; the transmitted touch of. . . soft hands, and the gentle memories only girls can inherit. Those dreamy moments abruptly end and the bodies transform regardless of their intentions. The ‘xx’ gives and takes. It is an inescapable thread of fate. This is a girl’s animation to warn the end of girlfriend to warn the end of girlhood. . .
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In the Harbor town "Y", The old red brick-built building which is in a corner of the town has watched the changing times of the harbor and people's lives for above hundred years. A red brick who is a piece of the building has seen "the glittering square thing" from there. It has been in his mind. One day, he gets out of the building wall and begins to walk. After walking, he finds it a sea. And then, he is given some encounters.
Blue Eyes – in HARBOR TALE –

An animated film based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material – the visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. As well as many Japanese animators, Kawamoto assembled leading names in animation from across the world. Each animator was asked to contribute at least 30 seconds to illustrate their stanza, and most of the sequences are under a minute (Yuriy Norshteyn's, though, is nearly two minutes long).
Winter Days

In the moments before death, one of the Battling Gods recalls his defeat in a magnificent fight. That battle transcended meta worlds, time and parallel universes as the Battling God faced off with another of his kind. All living creatures celebrated their fight with cries of joy.
Quest of the Battling Gods

There's a pet caterpillar named Larva in my class. I don't like bugs but Larva is sweet and we become friends. But one day, I am faced with a horrible choice.
Live or Let Live

One day a boy encounters a street vendor who sells chicks.Even the boy knows these birds will die very soon. To his eyes, the man is selling none other than death itself.
The Death Vendor

Summer is coming to an end. A little girl on the beach remembers the days spent giggling and dancing with her friend. The goodbyes and memories intertwine in a mesh of sorrow and joy.
That summer there were two of us

The girl wished to transcend her own body and become a jellyfish. She was drawn to the figure of the jellyfish floating freely in the sea.
Flow of Life

Reminiscing the days I spent with an old friend, facing up to the narrow but deep gap that lies between us.
Gals

Everyone crosses the Red Bridge and yet no one likes him. One day, he falls into the deep valley.
The Red Bridge is Falling Down

For her, dance is life. And life is dance. Every tingle in her heart gets her swinging to the beat.
Dance to Life

A woman traces her memories through a pearl ring, and comes upon her mother gazing at the same ring. But her memories soon lose their outline and become enclosed within the pearl.
The Pearl Remains

In the woods is a company where animals work. One worker, the chameleon, is hurt by the ridicule from his colleagues. Can they come to understand each other?
Invisible

A girl made of unmelted snow has fallen in love with the dragon who brings spring. A story of changing seasons and thawing hearts.
Hear the Snow Melt

Fluffy turtles, fluffy monkeys, fluffy lizards. Discover the world populated by these mysteriously charming imaginary creatures. They have adorably fluffy bodies and are becoming an ever more common sight in daily life.
Fluffiction

A boy and a girl draw pictures on the wall with sticks made of black fish. One day a blue fish drifts ashore to them.
mermaid song

It's summer vacation and all the kids in the neighborhood have left to visit relatives. But there in the relentless glare of the sun, is a boy looking up at the sky.
Summer Sky Reverie

On days I don't want to leave the house, I enjoy watching TV and videos on my smartphone. I'm supposed to be at home but the screen keeps taking me elsewhere and I lose my grip on my whereabouts and reality.
Indoor Days

This story is about a place long ago, before birth and before death, that everyone knows and no one knows.