[KineJapan] Kuri Yoji

[Aaron Gerow]

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.

https://www.fnn.jp/articles/-/802699



Aaron Gerow
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