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GIFFONI EXPERIENCE 2013 - 19.28 July

Sections & Films

NINJA & SOLDIER

Category: Edition 2013

Synopsis
Two boys are competing with one another in a child-like dialog. Ken is a ninja. Nito is a child soldier from the Congo. Naive meets gruesome reality. Commonalities and differences are explored, highlighting the chasm that separates their worlds.

 

Sinossi
Un dialogo infantile tra due bambini, una competizione verbale. Ken è un ninja. Nito è un bambino soldato del Congo. L’ingenuità a confronto con una realtà raccapricciante. Il dialogo esplora similitudini e differenze, sottolineando il baratro che separa i due mondi dei ragazzi.

 

 

 

Original Title NINJA & SOLDIER
Category Official Competition
Section Masterclass Short Films
Tipology Short Film
Duration 10’
Production Year 2012
Nationality Japan
Directed by Isamu Hirabayashi
Director of photography Ani Watanabe
Animation Isamu Hirabayashi
Sound Keitaro Iijima
Music Takashi Watanabe
Original Voices Reigo Mizoguchi
Shion Noda
Produced by Yasuo Fukuro, Isamu Hirabayashi

 

ninja-regIsamu Hirabayashi
The director was born in 1972 in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. After graduating from Musashino Art University, he became a graphic designer at an advertising production company. He then left this job and became a freelance film director. He has worked on the production of numerous commercials in Japan. While working on these commercials he set out to produce the short films TEXTISM (2003), DORON (2006), BABIN (2008), ARAMAKI (2009), SHIKASHA (2010), 663114 (2011), NINJA & SOLDIER (2012).

Isamu Hirabayashi
Il regista è nato nel 1972 nella prefettura di Shizuoka, Giappone. Dopo il diploma alla Musashino Art University, è diventato un graphic designer presso una società di produzione pubblicitaria. Ha poi lasciato questo lavoro ed è diventato un regista freelance. Ha lavorato alla produzione di numerosi spot pubblicitari in Giappone e ha realizzato i cortometraggi TEXTISM (2003), Doron (2006), BABIN (2008), Aramaki (2009), SHIKASHA (2010), 663.114 (2011), NINJA & SOLDIER (2012).

 

 

 

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