La Maison en Petits Cubes

About La Maison en Petits Cubes

An old man is forced to continuously build on new levels to his home as the water rises in his town. As he visits the submerged levels of his home, he begins to relive scenes from days gone by.

List of La Maison en Petits Cubes Episodes

Episode	Title	Release	Prerelease
La Maison en Petits Cubes
-	2009 Academy Award Winner	-	07/02/2009
-	Preview	07/02/2009	07/02/2009

Detailed Information

• Alternative Names: House of Small Cubes, Pieces of Love,Tsumiki no Ie, つみきのいえ
• Genres: la maison en petits cubes, kunio kato, drama, short animation, oscar
• Episodes: 1
• Publisher: ROBOT Communications Inc.
• Year: 2008
• Air Date: Jul 2, 2009 to Jul 3, 2010

Synopsis:

An old man is forced to continuously build on new levels to his home as the water rises in his town. When he drops his favorite pipe overboard, he is forced to dive to retrieve it from the depths. As he visits the submerged levels of his home, he begins to relive scenes from days gone by.

More About La Maison en Petits Cubes:

“La Maison en Petits Cubes (The House of Small Cubes)” an animation film created and directed by Kunio Kato and produced by ROBOT (Head office: Shibuya Ward, Tokyo; President: Shuji Abe).

This creation won Kato The Best Animated Short Film at the 81 st Academy Awards®.

Kato follows in the footsteps of the Anime master Hayao Miyazaki as only the second Japanese director in history to ever to win an Oscar®. Hayao Miyazaki won the Best Animated Feature Film Award in 2003 for his “Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi” (Spirited Away).

Besides the Oscar, “La Maison en Petits Cubes" has garnered acclaim at film festivals worldwide. At the Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2008, it won the Annecy Cristal––the top prize––as well as the Junior Jury Award. Elsewhere, the film was awarded the Audience Prize at the 12th International Animation Festival in Hiroshima in 2008, and the Animation Division Grand Prize at the 12th Japan Media Arts Festival sponsored by Japan’s Agency of Cultural Affairs. To date, this masterpiece has won a total of 20 awards at 12 film festivals around the globe.

Kunio Kato, was born in 1977 and is currently working for Animation Studio “Cage” of ROBOT’s Communication Planning Division. Kato directed the work to a screenplay created by Kenya Hirata, a playwright also serving ROBOT.


Official website:
ROBOT: http://www.robot.co.jp/en/
La Maison en Petits Cubes : http://www.robot.co.jp/en/tsumiki/


Kinio Kato is a key member of "Cage," the animation studio at ROBOT.

"Cage" was founded by Tatsutoshi Nomura, an animation director known for “Stray Sheep” and other works, The studio has four animation artists (Nomura, Kunio Kato, Takuya Inaba, Osamu Sakai) and two computer graphic artists as staff. It is involved in the creation of various animation and CG works.

In addition to designing and producing original works, the studio is engaged in a wide range of services, such as character creation/development, creating animations for TV and Internet advertisements, and more.

Official website:
ROBOT Character & Animation Team : http://www.robot.co.jp/charanim_en/index.html


Director/Animation: Kunio Kato
Screenplay: Kenya Hirata
Producers: Masanori Kusakabe, Yuko Shin

Sound: Stereo (No dialogues)
Running Time: 12 min 3sec
Creation Techniques: Drawing on paper / 2D computer
Screening Format: HDcam (NTSC) , Batacam (PAL,NTSC)
Frame size: 16:9 Letterbox