Members of ASIFA-Japan

Takeshi Yashiro

Takeshi Yashiro

director, writer, animator and puppet creator

CONTACT
Taiyokikaku Co.,Ltd. TECARAT
4-4-4, 2F Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0004, Japan
tel: +81-3-3436-1460
E-mail: yashiro@taiyokikaku.com
PROFILE

Takeshi Yashiro is a director at Taiyo Kikaku Co., Ltd., a Japanese TV-Commercial production company.
While he directed numerous commercials, he studied various stop-motion animation techniques on his own, utilizing and perfecting them in his commercial and web movie works until 2012 when he began focusing on creating stop-motion animation.
Yashiro’s works have a sense of handmade feelings and is best at story driven movies. His roles include a writer, director, creator of sets and puppets as well as animator.

Yashiro was born in 1969 in Akita prefecture in Japan and graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1993.

WORKS / PRIZES
2016 » "Norman the Snowman On a night of Shooting Stars"

Director, Animator, Script

2015 » "Moon of a sleepless night"

Director, Animator, Script

2013 » "Norman the Snowman The Northern Light"

Director, Animator, Script

» "Firewood, Kanta & Grandpa"

Director, Animator, Script

2012 » "Dear November boy"

Director, Animator, Script

Norman the Snowman On a night of Shooting Stars

"Norman the Snowman On a night of Shooting Stars"
©TAIYO KIKAKU Co., Ltd. / EXPJ Ltd., 2016

Moon of a sleepless night

"Moon of a sleepless night"
©TAIYO KIKAKU Co., Ltd. / EXPJ Ltd., 2015

Norman the Snowman The Northern Light

"Norman the Snowman The Northern Light"
©TAIYO KIKAKU Co., Ltd. / EXPJ Ltd., 2013

Firewood, Kanta & Grandpa

"Firewood, Kanta & Grandpa"
©TOHO GAS Co., Ltd. / ASATSU-DK INC. / SP FORUM Inc. / TAIYO KIKAKU Co., Ltd. , 2013

Dear November boy

"Dear November boy"
©Takeshi Yashiro, 2012