Anime’s Pay Divide Runs Between Studios That Take Risks and Those That Don’t, Says Tokyo Festival Advisor

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Popular on Variety “In other words, it’s not necessarily that a hit film generates profits that are then passed on to the people who made it. Rather, companies that can attract the right people in the first place are better positioned to produce a hit,” Fujitsu says.

That requires studios to commit more of their own money and shoulder bigger business risks, he adds. “How to bridge that gap depends on how individual companies choose to run their businesses,” he says.

“If we simply lump everything together as an ‘industry-wide problem,’ we risk obscuring the specific factors at play.” The Animation section this year features nine new Japanese and international works. On the Japanese side, auteur projects from major studios with commercial track records, Nishigori Atsushi’s “Grotesqqque” and Natsume Shingo’s “Ghost – End of Night,” sit alongside independent productions, Kadowaki Kohei’s “We Are Aliens” and Kawajiri Masanao’s “Cherry and Virgin.” The international slate includes Louis Clichy’s “Iron Boy,” Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado’s “Forgotten Island” and “Walking with Animators,” a documentary by Alexandre Poncet and Gilles Penso about the making of animated films.

“I don’t see commercial and experimental works as opposing forces. There is a broad spectrum between the two, and many films fall somewhere along it,” Fujitsu says.

The four Japanese titles, he argues, may be closer in genre than their production setups would suggest. Placing them side by side is meant to make audiences ask whether a line between commercial and experimental animation exists at all, and the same goes for the international picks.

“Ultimately, what we’re looking for in TIFF’s Animation section are films with a distinct creative signature – works that make the creators’ voices visible and offer audiences something stimulating in a variety of ways,” he says. The section also runs a focus on women animation directors, with Nagaoka Chika’s “Detective Conan: The Fist of Blue Sapphire,” Watanabe Kotono’s “Gold Kingdom and W

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