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- Region:Japan
- Type:Movie
- English name:Genius Party
- Official name:Genius Party
- Chinese name:天才嘉年华
- Other names:创世峰会 / ジーニアス・パーティ
- Premiered:July 7, 2007
- Status:Finished Airing
- Tags:Seek novelty / Story / Source original / R(L)
- Director:福山庸治 / 河森正治 / 二村秀樹 / 福島敦子 / 渡辺信一郎
- Scenario:二村秀樹 / 河森正治 / 福山庸治 / 湯浅政明 / 渡辺信一郎
- Storyboard:湯浅政明 / 福山庸治 / 二村秀樹 / 渡辺信一郎 / 木村真二
- Co-director:窪岡俊之 / 田中孝弘
- Character design:福山庸治 / 福島敦子 / 鈴木信吾 / 田中孝弘 / 湯浅政明
- Music:渡邊琢磨 / 山本精一 / 菅野よう子
- Studios:STUDIO 4℃
- Family:Genius Party
- Rating:16+
Genius Party
Genius Party is an anthology of seven short animated films from Studio 4°C:
Genius Party — directed by Fukushima Atsuko
A bizarre bird-like creature runs through a barren desert and finds what seems to be a smiling egg lying on the ground.
Shanghai Dragon — directed by Kawamori Shouji
An imaginative Chinese boy finds a futuristic device that can make his own drawings come to life.
After discovering the device, the town he lives in is about to be invaded by spaceships and machines of mass destruction that are all centuries ahead of Earth's time.
Deathtic 4 — directed by Kimura Shinji
A tale set in a world full of zombies, living their normal zombie lives.
A living frog falls from the blackened sky of the zombie world, and a little zombie boy with his friends try to bring the living creature back to its own world.
Doorbell — directed by Fukuyama Youji
The main character is a ghost in his own world.
He must outrun the other versions of himself, or they will take over his life.
Limit Cycle — directed by Nimura Hideki
An existential examination of the world as seen through the lens of a man seemingly trapped in an endless cycle of work.
Happy Machine — directed by Yuasa Masaaki
A infant who is happily secured in his own nursery suddenly discovers that everything about the nursery is fake.
Soon the infant is forced out of the nursery into the world that exists outside, where adventure awaits, and there are many alien-like creatures to encounter.
Baby Blue — directed by Watanabe Shin'ichirou
A small adventure of two young students who decide to go anywhere they can for just one day, to enjoy that day without caring about the rest and simply be together.
Note: Some screenings also included the French "Le manchot mélomane" directed by Nicolas de Crécy (however, this short film was not part of the first two Genius Party films).
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EP1 "Genius Party" - Atsuko Fukushima
In a barren desert, a human-like figure with a bird-like mask and appendages interacts with sentient egg-like stones in what seems like a symbiotic relationship.
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EP2 "Shanghai Dragon" - Shōji Kawamori
A young Chinese boy finds a futuristic device that can make his own drawings come to life, but it is part of a plan by humans from centuries in the future to save their civilization.
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EP3 "Deathtic 4" - Shinji Kimura
A boy in world of zombies finds a living frog that falls from the sky and he tries to return the creature to its own world.
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EP4 "Doorbell" - Yoji Fukuyama
A young man encounters other versions of himself causing confusion about his own existence.
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EP5 "Limit Cycle" - Hideki Futamura
A salary man, seemingly trapped in an endless cycle of work, makes an existential examination of the world. Illustrated in the manner of a psychedelic hallucination.
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EP6 "Happy Machine" - Masaaki Yuasa
An infant suddenly discovers that everything in its nursery is fake and goes out into the world outside where it encounters a range of alien like creatures, some friendly and some not.
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EP7 "Baby Blue" - Shinichirō Watanabe
A bittersweet story about two high-school students and long-time friends who skip school for a day before one leaves for another city.