Makoto NAKAMURA

Cheburashka

チェブラーシカ

Nippon Visions   ½ 

Forty years after the release of the Russian original CHROCODILE GENA, Japanese productions have created a new stopmotion puppet animation featuring Cheburashka. Mysterious creature Cheburashka arrives in Russia, packed in an orange crate. He takes refuge in a telephone booth and becomes friends with a lonely crocodile named Gena who has posted “Friend Wanted” flyers allover town.

チェブラーシカ

Japan 2010

63 minutes

About Makoto NAKAMURA

Makoto NAKAMURA, born in Saitama Prefecture in 1970, has worked as a graphic designer, screenwriter, production supervisor and producer before taking a chance on directing. His debut film from 2010 was a remake of the Russian puppet animation CHEBURASHKA.