Animator Ryo Ono, a 37-year-old Tokyo native, achieved his dream of making films by changing his career as a movie production assistant.
Despite his late start as an animator in 2004, his first movie, “Eagle Talon The Movie: The Chancellor Only Lives Twice,” won the awards for Best Animation and Best International Director of an Animation at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival in February.
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