Production

Yuichi Ito

Born 1961-11-30 · Tokyo, Japan

Yuichi Ito 伊藤有壱 (1961-) is a Japanese animation artist. He was born in Tokyo. He graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Design in 1985. He is a director of the Japan Animation Association. He is a professor at the Department of Animation, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. He is a visiting professor at the Department of Character Art, Faculty of Arts, Osaka University of Arts. He is the representative director of Itoon Co., Ltd. Not to be confused with the animator of the same name 伊藤優一 (different kanji).

Acting credits

Behind the camera

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A little Chinku thinks his father does not love him. And when he thinks [that] his grandfather, his only supporter, rejects his hand for help, Chinku feels betrayed. . . Chinku draws circles with a huge and heavy pencil, which the time to fly fast. . .

tick tack

2011

Boozy Woozy Wonderland poster
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Heartbroken, I bought a bottle of wine and drank it walking home. A tipsy journey reconstructed using the Japanese traditional storytelling method "rakugo."

Boozy Woozy Wonderland

2019

Liminal Park poster
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A dark dark amusement park. Gradually, the rides begin to move.

Liminal Park

2022

Silent Smile poster
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She wears a white mask to keep her sadness hidden from others. How can she free herself from the darkness of her mind?

Silent Smile

2017

MUNCH MUNCH poster
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How to make this mysterious cake? The ingredients include blue eggs, cookie flowers, pillow stuffing and much more.

MUNCH MUNCH

2021

Mind Room poster
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Little by little, something has gone wrong with a career woman's personal life. But these little things are what fill the big hole in her heart.

Mind Room

2017

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One elephant lives in a mountain. He spends his life drawing pictures and fishing. Pigs with swollen crotches live in the city. The city is full of towers. One day a tower is built near the elephant’s cabin, the elephant starts to climb it.

Holy Shit!

2015

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9.0

A story of a father and a daughter. He projects the images of former himself on his daughter. Their feelings start to merge as their memories clearer.

Helleborus Niger

2015

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7.0

Red ribbon of a double helix is the bond to connect the girls; the transmitted touch of. . . soft hands, and the gentle memories only girls can inherit. Those dreamy moments abruptly end and the bodies transform regardless of their intentions. The ‘xx’ gives and takes. It is an inescapable thread of fate. This is a girl’s animation to warn the end of girlfriend to warn the end of girlhood. . .

xx

2012

Invisible Touch poster
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Tosuke is a home tutor who meets a girl named Miyako on the job. She is blind and doesn't move or speak. But is Tosuke seeing the real Miyako?

Invisible Touch

2017

Typhoon No. 14 poster
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Okinawa is ominous right before the arrival of a typhoon. At first, Anri is excited by the unusual turn of events, but gradually she becomes fearful of the threatening typhoon. Then, her big sister tells her that typhoons have an eye...

Typhoon No. 14

2018

Fourth Period Swimming Class poster
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The fourth-grade protagonist is going through physical and emotional changes and feels awkward as she can't help but compare herself to her friends. One day, she is blown away by her classmate Aya's swimming and realizes that she has feelings for her.

Fourth Period Swimming Class

2022

See My World poster
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Two brothers are drawing pictures in art class, but they see completely different things. The younger one is confused by the behavior of his brother, who is lost in his own world. But then, his big brother shares his beautiful world of gentle sea creatures.

See My World

2019

My secret school days poster
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It would be so much better if everyone just went away... A girl who hates school sits in the corner of the classroom and creates an imaginary world.

My secret school days

2017

Boogerly Love poster
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Hanako always watches the other kids play but she is too timid to ask if she can join in. Then one day, Booger Gal rockets out of her and helps her nose into a new life.

Boogerly Love

2022

Void poster
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A closed society, and idols created as numerical expressions of their own existence. Endless replications of the original data results in the loss of individuality, but emotional impulses begin to emerge.

Void

2017

The Pearl Remains poster
8.0

A woman traces her memories through a pearl ring, and comes upon her mother gazing at the same ring. But her memories soon lose their outline and become enclosed within the pearl.

The Pearl Remains

2018

Gals poster
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Reminiscing the days I spent with an old friend, facing up to the narrow but deep gap that lies between us.

Gals

2018

3 Intestine Road, Fish Island poster
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A story of a family of three consisting of a pig, fish and a tadpole that lives in the stomach of a big fish. Their lives are turned upside down when a fruit floats into their home.

3 Intestine Road, Fish Island

2022

Grey Zone poster
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Lumps of clay fall into the grey space. The white clay turns into a man, the black clay into a monster. The two lose their flesh every time they move so they start a battle to stay alive.

Grey Zone

2020

Psyche poster
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One day, while the main character is dozing off, he is abandoned by the owner of the shadow that he lives in. This creature who has lost his home wanders through the night city in search of his shadow.

Psyche

2019

The Death Vendor poster
8.0

One day a boy encounters a street vendor who sells chicks.Even the boy knows these birds will die very soon. To his eyes, the man is selling none other than death itself.

The Death Vendor

2019

Dance to Life poster
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For her, dance is life. And life is dance. Every tingle in her heart gets her swinging to the beat.

Dance to Life

2018

Live or Let Live poster
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There's a pet caterpillar named Larva in my class. I don't like bugs but Larva is sweet and we become friends. But one day, I am faced with a horrible choice.

Live or Let Live

2018