Youji Kuri

久里洋二

[Website](http://www.yojikuri.jp/) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/yojikuri_O) Yōji Kuri was born in 1928 in Sabae, Fukui, Japan. He has been active in numerous fields including animation, manga, painting, illustration, sculpture, and fiction. He founded the animation studio Kuri Jikken Manga Kōbō (Kuri Experimental Animation Studio) in 1960 and began producing works. The same year, Kuri, Ryōhei Yanagihara, and Hiroshi Manabe formed Animation 3-nin no Kai (Three-Person Animation Circle) and organized Japan’s first experimental animation screening at Sōgetsu Art Center. The screening series was later rebranded as an “Animation Festival,” and became the country’s foundational festival of animation, screening works from both Japan and overseas. He is known internationally for the very black comedy of his films, with the typically naïve style of his cartooning often belying the surreal, obscene and disturbing situations they depict (though he has worked in a variety of styles and mediums, including pixilation); this made them a favorite among the fervently counter-cultural audiences, which included such filmmakers as René Laloux, of the first few years of the Annecy International Ani

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