(born 1977) is a Japanese animator known for the short film ''

La Maison en Petits Cubes is a 2008 Anime, Japanese animated short subject film created by Kunio Katō, with music by Kenji Kondo and produced by Robot Communications and animated by Oh! Production. It won several prizes, including The Annecy Cristal at the 32nd Annecy In ...

'' which won the 2008

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards (with different names), covering the year ...

. He also created ''The Diary Of Tortov Roddle'', a

surrealistic Surrealism is an art movement, art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike s ...

dream adventure.

Filmography

Influence

In 2015 the

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

an writer

José Baroja Ramón Mauricio González Gutiérrez (born September 4, 1983), known by his pen name José Baroja, is a Chilean writer, academic and editor. He is a member of the Poets of the World Movement, representative of the Neofantastic and social reali ...

published the story " El hombre del terrón de azúcar", the winning text of the XIII Gonzalo Rojas Pizarro International Contest, inspired by the short film "Middonaitokafe" ("The Midnight Cafe"), included in the film .

References

External links

Robot Communications
– Kato's production company

at Journal du Japon *
Kunio Katō
at Media Arts Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Kato, Kunio Japanese animators Japanese animated film directors Japanese surrealist artists Surrealist filmmakers People from Kagoshima 1977 births Living people