Synopsis

Konigiri-kun is a small onigiri rice ball. He is full of curiosity. Thus, whenever he finds a piece of string, he cannot resist pulling it! But wait a minute. What is that string connected to? Of course, it is connected to his friends and various things around him. But it is also connected to the universe, the past, and the future as well! What would you do if you were in his shoes?

Mari Miyazawa

Mari Miyazawa graduated from Nihon University, College of Art, Department of Fine Arts (1983), and from the Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media (2014). She worked as a graphic designer  of computer games until 2000. Since 2002, she has presented her oekaki bento (kyaraben) works as an exploration of 'food art'. She has had solo exhibitions in Ginza (Tokyo) and Umeda (Osaka). Since 2007 she has directed short animated films using food as material, aired on J:COM (Japan's largest CATV channel).