Only a handful of features, yet no two look alike, swinging from scrappy cult experiment to festival darling. Pick the one that best captures his rubbery, restless style.
1Mind GameYuasa's 2004 debut feature, a hyperactive cult anime about a loser who gets a second shot at life after being shot dead by a yakuza.1000pts
2Lu Over the WallA 2017 musical fantasy about a lonely teenager in a fishing town who befriends a dancing mermaid girl; it won the Annecy Cristal.600pts
3Ride Your WaveA 2019 romance about a surfer who keeps appearing to her firefighter boyfriend in water after his death.0pts
4Inu-OhA 2021 rock opera set in 14th-century Japan about a cursed Noh dancer and a blind biwa player who become pop stars.0pts
5The Night Is Short, Walk On GirlA 2017 romantic comedy that follows one wild night of drinking, book fairs and guerrilla theatre in Kyoto, adapted from Tomihiko Morimi's novel.0pts
