Kentarô Hachisuka
Directing
Biography
Kentaro Hachisuka (蜂須賀 健太郎, Hachisuka Kentarō, born June 17, 1965) is a Japanese film director and a member of the Directors Guild of Japan, known for his imaginative storytelling and visual experimentation. A graduate of Wakō University, he began making 8 mm films in childhood. His professional debut came in 1988 with a music video in the enka genre, and in 1993 he directed his first feature film, "Those Who Would Be Einstein", which earned international acclaim and was nominated at the Vancouver International Film Festival. Throughout his career, Hachisuka has explored various genres, including manga adaptations like "Aquarium" (1998), puppet animation such as "Puppenpit" (2008), and international co-productions like "Here Comes Santa Claus" (2013). In 2015, he released "Alice in Dreamland", a fantasy animation using ball-jointed dolls. In 2022, he released "Ano niwa no tobira o aketa toki".
Known For
Alice is summoned by the White Rabbit to save Wonderland from spreading Darkness. However, she knows Alice in Wonderland is a story and that this must be a dream. And so it proves, but at the end, the now grown-up Alice sees the events of her dream begin to unfold for real.
Alice in Dreamland
This odd three-parter purports to map the metaphysics of the interpersonal universe, dividing its trio of tales into three, different-toned “planets.”
Those Who Would Be Einstein
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AQUARIUM
Yoko, a 5-year-old girl, on a walk with her father finds an abandoned Western-style building with a beautiful garden, into which an elderly woman is moving. Yoko is attracted to the noisy grandmother, although she is afraid. Eventually Yoko falls ill with diphtheria and spends her time in the hospital. One night she is guided by a girl, who looks into the mysterious world of her grandmother's memory. The memories of 5-year-old Yoko and her 70-year-old grandmother overlap. Yoko experiences an adventure in her grandmother's time that was neither her dream nor reality.