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SHUKAN NEW YORK SEIKATSUSHINOHARA Wins Two
ADC Young Guns Awards

Stop Motion Animator in the Spotlight

Kenta Shinohara

Member of Dwarf Studios
Kenta Shinohara, an animator withTYO, Inc. (Head Office: Shibuya-ku,Tokyo; President and CEO: Kazuyoshi
Hayakawa; hereafter, “TYO”) won the
ADC Young Guns Awards as the only
Japanese recipient out of 500 entries
around the world. He also won theCreative Choice Award out of 28 nominees from a public vote. Shinohara waspresented both awards at Sony Hall in
New York on November 20.
The ADC Young Guns
Awards are given out to professionals
around the globe who are under 30 yearsof age and have a minimum of two
years of professional experience. Theawards were founded in 1996 by theadvertising and fine arts organization,
the Art Directors Club (ADC), who is
the organizer of the ADC Awards, theworld’s oldest advertising awards. The
Young Guns Awards are now hosted by
The One Club for Creativity, a New
York-based nonprofit organization thatwas established by a merger between
The One Club and ADC.
Shinohara says, “Stop motion
takes something 3D in real life into 2D,
therefore making itself more energetic
than computer graphics. Using 12 or 24
pictures per second, a 10 second
advancement in a day is great. My job is
to give the characters created by artists
life. This is a great boost to my confi-

dence of course, but because I wasawarded twice for the first time as aJapanese, I will be happy if thishelps the Japanese stop motion
industry.”
Born in Ehime Prefecture,
Japan in 1989, Shinohara dreamedof being an animator; he began
drawing flip books in elementary
school. His work, “Family’s Story,”
which he created while enrolled in
the Animation Course of theCharacter Creative Arts Department
at the Osaka College of Art in association with Osaka University ofArts, won first prize for children’sfables at the 9th Hida International
Animation Festival of Folktales andFables. Afterward, he began creatingstop motion animation projects. Hethen joined Dwarf Studios, TYO’sanimation studio, as a part-time animator assistant in 2014. He thenofficially joined Dwarf Studios in2016 as an animator. His skills as astop motion animator, 2D animatorand character designer are growing.
He explains, “I inspect
the movements of humans and animals, but realism is not the only factor needed for entertainment. I
always find ways to add ‘fun’ to mywork.” (Ryoichi Miura/Translatedby Kanta Hakamata)THE

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SPECIAL BENEFIT PERFORMANCE BY @K4
DONATIONS TO 9/11 AND 3/11 CHARITIES THROUGH JMSAAmbassador and Consul
General of Japan in New YorkKanji Yamanouchi, who is also amember of the rock band @K4, helda charity concert at JAZZ at
KITANO on the evening ofNovember 23. The proceeds of thisconcert went to the victims of 9/11
and 3/11 (the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami). Yamanouchi

was inspired by Robert T. Yanagisawa,President of The Japanese MedicalSociety of America, who has given longtime support through annual events forthe victims of 9/11 and 3/11 since 2011.
Yanagisawa invited his friends who loverock to this year’ s event, and soYamanouchi wanted to do something forthe victims, too.
The Kitano Hotel did not

Tom (drums) and Yamanouchi, whogoes by Kan (guitar) when in the band.
Kan said to the audience, “Thank youfor the donations. I’m hoping they willserve as the bridge for Tohoku disaster
relief that connects the victims of bothof those disasters and supporters.”
The musical performances by@K4 were held twice at 7:30 p.m. and9:30 p.m. They performed rock hits like
“Hotel California” by The Eagles and“ A Hard Day’ s Night” and “ DayTripper” by The Beatles. Violinist
Sumiko Tajihi also appeared as a special guest alongside the band.
Following the event, Yamanouchi
passed a check worth $4,505 in donations to Yanagisawa.(Ryoichi
Miura/Translated by Chikako Iwasaki)
ophy and literature are embedded in the“The Heart of Kyogen 2019,” theDelight in a World of Laughter third annual
event of Kyogen perfor- plays and that the plays “ celebratemances sponsored by the Noh Society humanity, making us think about how we
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held on the evening of November 8 at theBruno Walter Auditorium in the New
York Public Library for the Performing
Arts at the Lincoln Center. This year’s
performance featured the Okura School
Kyogen actors Daijiro Zenchiku,
Noriyoshi Okura and Shinkai Yoshida.
The hall was filled with laughter andplayfulness as the actors engaged theaudience.
The event featured a lecture performance format which the Noh Society
has become known for. It started with twoof the actors improvising a skit about
their arrival in New York City. The lecture explained that Noh and Kyogen arelike siblings, that light and sound effects
are expressed through the words andactions of the actors, that religion, philos-ence participated in Kyogen-style laughter, and a volunteer shared the experienceof trying on a mask. The program also
included a performance of “Neongyoku,”
a piece with song and dance, followed by
the popular story of “Busu,” drawing theaudience into a world of laughter throughJapanese plays that date back hundreds ofyears.
Not only does the Noh Society
provide young Japanese actors opportunities to perform overseas, but it also
engages in educational activities. The
three actors also visited the Keio
Academy of New York and George
Washington University, sharing the fascination of Japanese classical arts. (Articleand Photo by Kaoru Komi/Translated byJannet Abraham)

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