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 the Graduate School at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2014. She is a boxed lunch artist and an animation film director. She began to make  animations with her original character from a boxed lunch in 2012, and Konigiri-kun, her animated film in which a rice ball acts as a hero, has been  broadcasted by Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) since 2014. She has received many awards at film festivals, such as the Grand Prix for preschool children at Ottawa International Animation Festival in 2018.