Synopsis

Konigiri-kun is a small rice ball (onigiri) who lives in a food case. His head is sesame seed and black dried seaweed is his trademark. One morning, realising that his sesame seed was about to disappear, he went shopping with his pet Brorog. In front of his house, many different stores were open. While enjoying looking round all the stores, distracted by many other things, he forgot what he had gone out to buy. Will he correctly buy sesame seeds? When enthralled by fashionable and new things, and it seems like you are about to lose sight of yourself, stop and think a little. Consider what it is that can help you regain control of yourself. You will definitely find it very close to you.

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).