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INU-OH

By Masaaki YUASA

ASMIK ACE, INC - as SALES All rights, Worldwide except Asia, South Korea, India and China / DISTR Theatrical, VOD, Airline, JAPAN / PROD / FIN

Musical - Completed 2021

A new film directed by Masaaki Yuasa.
Officially selected and joins as part of the Work in Progress Features program at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 2020.

Festivals
& Awards

Fest. Animation Annecy - MIFA 2019
Work in Progress
Fest. Animation Annecy - MIFA 2020
Preview
Toronto - TIFF 2021
Special Presentations
Venice - Biennale 2021
Orizzonti Competition
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    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Musical, Historical, Animation
    • Countries
    • JAPAN, CHINA
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Duration
    • 98 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Masaaki YUASA
    • Writer(s)
    • Akiko NOGI
    • Producer(s)
    • Eunyoung CHOI (Science SARU), Fumie TAKEUCHI (Asmik Ace, Inc.)
    • Synopsis
    • The animated feature “INU-OH” is a musical animation about Inu-Oh, a real-life Sarugaku Noh performer and playwright who enjoyed great success in 14th-century Japan. However, he is all but unknown nowadays because very few documents about his life have survived the times. Now, around 600 years later, “INU-OH” full of music and dance sequences portrays a tale of friendship between the legendary Inu-Oh who vanished from history and a Biwa player he befriended.

      Inu-Oh was born with unique physical characteristics, and the adults cover every inch of his body with garments and make him wear a mask on his face. One day, he meets a boy named Tomona, a blind biwa player. Inu-Oh tells him, “Write a biwa song about me”. Tomona makes a song about Inu-Oh’s tangled fate and starts performing it with biwa. Inu-Oh and Tomona become business partners for their survival in society and develop an inseverable friendship. Helping each other unlock their talents, they produce one hit after another and climb the ladder to stardom. And Inu-Oh, who comes to mesmerize his audiences on stage, frees parts of his body one by one and achieves unequaled beauty. Why is Tomona blind? Why was Inu-Oh born with unique physical characteristics? It is a story about the friendship of Inu-Oh and Tomona, who dance and sing to get to the truth and break each other’s curse.
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