Reiko Yokosuka
Directing
Biography
Reiko Yokosuka is a japanese animator born and grew up in Hitachinaka City in Ibaraki Prefecture. She is a graduate of Nihon Kogakuin College (日本工学院専門学校 ) and she's known for her black and white "brush" animations (ink wash animation). She grew up reading the manga of Ryoko Yamagishi and Moto Hagio and her works have shown at festivals around the world and on Japanese television. She contributed a short to the Kihachiro Kawamoto collaborative project Winter Days (2003)
Known For
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
The gaki is a "biwa" player of the ogre, who plays the instrument well. When he starts to play it at the veranda, surroundings transform into the profound and remote world. Characters come out from the electric wire and then they start to dance to the melody on the line. The music turn into the wind and the wind calls the waves. The gaki integrates with the waves.
GAKI Biwa-houshi
When one butterfly falls, a wave is born from it, the wave becomes a bubble, and various lives are born and disappear.
Metamorphose
Short animation by Reiko Yokosuka.
A Piper
An anime made entirely in sumi-e following a child fox spirit and his morphing ability for haunting but he ends up getting scared himself.