<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">It was announced in the news that Kuri Yoji, the great Japanese animator, passed away on November 24 at age 96. Starting out as an illustrator and manga artist, he began doing animation at the end of the fifties and was a member of the Animation Association of Three with Yanagihara Ryohei and Manabe Hiroshi, who helped lay the path for experimental, art animation. He became known worldwide for his black humor animated shorts and for a while was arguably the most famous Japanese animator globally. He was active well into his nineties and I fondly remember his playful posts on Facebook. RIP.</span></div><div><br></div><a href="https://www.fnn.jp/articles/-/802699">https://www.fnn.jp/articles/-/802699</a><div><br></div><br><br><div>
<meta charset="UTF-8"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Aaron Gerow<br>Alfred W. Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies<br>Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures<br>Yale University<br>320 York Street, Room 108<br>PO Box 208201<br>New Haven, CT 06520-8201<br>USA<br>Phone: 1-203-432-7082<br>Fax: 1-203-432-6729<br>e-mail: aaron.gerow@yale.edu<br>website: www.aarongerow.com<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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