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The seven short films making up GENIUS PARTY couldn’t be more diverse, linked only by a high standard of quality and inspiration. Atsuko Fukushima’s intro piece is a fantastic abstraction to soak up with the eyes. Masaaki Yuasa, of MIND GAME and CAT SOUP fame, brings his distinctive and deceptively simple graphic style and dream-state logic to the table with “Happy Machine,” his spin on a child’s earliest year. Shinji Kimura’s spookier “Deathtic 4,” meanwhile, seems to tap into the creepier corners of a child’s imagination and open up a toybox full of dark delights. Hideki Futamura’s “Limit Cycle” conjures up a vision of virtual reality, while Yuji Fukuyama’s "Doorbell" and "Baby Blue" by Shinichiro Watanabe use understated realism for very surreal purposes. And Shoji Kawamori, with “Shanghai Dragon,” takes the tropes and conventions of traditional anime out for very fun joyride.

7 Impacts by 7 Directors

Genres: Animation

Starring: Tomoko Kaneda, Rinko Kikuchi, Lu Ningjuan

Released: July 7, 2007

Runtime: 85.0

Popularity Rating: 1.113

Studio 4°C

Japan

Tomoko Kaneda
Rinko Kikuchi
Lu Ningjuan
Taro Yabe
Yuya Yagira

Directing — Director: Atsuko Fukushima
Directing — Director: Hideki Futamura
Directing — Director: Masaaki Yuasa
Directing — Director: Shin'ya Ohira
Directing — Director: Shinichiro Watanabe
Directing — Director: Shinji Kimura
Directing — Director: Shoji Kawamori
Directing — Director: Yoji Fukuyama