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PIGTAILS

By Yoshimi ITAZU

PRODUCTION I.G - as SALES All rights, World / PROD

Animation - Completed 2015

A though-provoking fable set in a cruel and gentle world after an unnamed disaster

Festivals
& Awards

WorldFest Houston 2016

Classic Cel Animation / Platinum Remi Award Winner

Fantasia Film Festival 2016

Animation Competition Shorts

Sitges FF 2016

Official Fantastic Competition

Bucheon International Animation Festival 2016

Competition Shorts

Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards 2016

Best Animation Short

Spotlight Short Film Awards 2016

Platinum Award

International Independent Film Awards 2016

Gold Award

LA Shorts Awards 2016

Best Original Score

- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Animation, First film, Social issues
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 28 mn
- Director(s)
- Yoshimi ITAZU
- Writer(s)
- Miho MARUO
- Producer(s)
- Keiko MATSUSHITA (Production I.G)
- Synopsis
- The earth shook. The sea roared. And then...
  There is a small house solitary standing by the seaside. A pigtail-braided girl is living there alone since that day. Mail is no longer delivered, but even this morning, she’s hanging out the laundry as usual.
  
  The directorial debut of animator Yoshimi Itazu (The Concierge, Miss Hokusai). Based on the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize-winning comic book "Mitsuami no Kami-sama" by Machiko Kyo, and visually inspired by Derek Jarman's garden in Dungeness -an oasis of life growing in front of a nuclear power plant- "Pigtails" metaphorically depicts the conflicting feelings that engulfed Japan in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.