Genki Kawamura is best known for his three bestselling novels. His first novel, If Cats Disappeared From The World, has sold more than a million copies in Japan and has been translated into 11 languages. Kawamura is also a producer, director, screenwriter, and a showrunner. He has received three consecutive Asia Pacific Screen Awards nominations for Best Animated Feature Film with your name., Mirai and Weathering with You. Your name. is the highest-grossing anime film at the Japanese box office and won awards across the globe including the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Animation. Mirai was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 2019 Academy Awards® and Golden GlobeTM among many others. As a director, Kawamura was nominated for the Cannes Film Festival’s short film Palme d’Or in 2018 for Duality (sharing the nomination with four other directors).
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