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Naoko Yamada

Debuted as director with the TV anime “K-ON!” and later directed its feature film. Her later works include “A Silent Voice”, selected for the Annecy International Animation Film Festival’s Feature Competition, as well as “The Heike Story”, and the film “The ColorsWithin”, winner of the Golden Goblet Award for Best Animated Feature at the Shanghai International Film Festival. She is the executive director of the 2026 TV anime “Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia”, selected for Annecy 2026.

A pastel-coloured cityscape features a train passing through modern buildings, roads with cars, and green spaces under a hazy sky with distant mountains.
Four colourful, childlike tiger drawings with bright orange and yellow fur, featuring black stripes and expressive faces on a white background.
A child wearing a red hat rides a colourful tiger through a lush, vibrant jungle filled with green and blue foliage under bright sunlight.
A colourful painting of a castle-like building with towers, surrounded by green grass and a large tree in the foreground under a blue sky.
Woman with long brown hair wearing a white blouse and dangling earrings, standing against a plain light grey background, looking slightly to the side with a neutral expression.

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