Higuchi Shinji, Kurosawa Akira and TOBU

[Roland Domenig]

higuchi shinji finished the digital animation short film TOBU last year. it
is said to have won a price at the siggraph animation festival 2000.
TOBU is based on one of three episodes that kurosawa akira couldn't realize
in his film YUME. it was financed by the multimedia content association in
cooperation with kurosawa production and uses 3d-digital-animation.
the contents homepage features a (very small) 1 minute clip of TOBU:

http://content.dcaj.or.jp/mmca/summary/04_05/flying.mov


wishing all kinejapan-listmembers a happy new year,

roland domenig
vienna university



> Does anyone know whatever happened to Higuchi Shinji's 2000 production
> TOBU.  I vaguely remember it being an adaptation of a Kurosawa Akira
> script, perhaps being a short and perhaps using heavy CGI.  Higuchi is
> the SFX guy who most recently worked on SAKUYA and PRINCESS BLADE.  Is
> it completed?  Still in production?  Apart from Koyuki, who else was
> meant to be before the camera?
> 
> Stephen
>