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Samurai Frog Golf

A retired frog samurai wants nothing more than to be left alone and spend his remaining years in peace on the golf course. But when he unwillingly becomes the protector of a baby turtle he must draw his club for one more round. An animated amphibious adventure for children of all ages and golfers of all handicaps.

  • Brent Forrest
    Director
    THE PEAK ( Water Effects / Editor ) , Like and Follow, Dirty Pool, Sincere Slugs
  • Mayumi Tachikawa
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Short
  • Genres:
    Adventure, Action, Humor, Fantacy
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 48 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 31, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    Japan
  • Country of Filming:
    Japan
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • SIGGRAPH Electronic Theatre
    Vancouver
    Canada
    August 8, 2022
    World Premiere
  • SIGGRAPH ASIA
    Daegu
    Korea, Republic of
    December 9, 2022
    Korean Premiere
    Selection
  • Animation Volda Festival
    Studenthuset Rokken
    Norway
    September 29, 2022
    Selection
  • Neum Animated Film Festival
    Neum
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    August 26, 2022
    WINNER
  • Wildlife Vaasa Festival-International Nature Film Festival
    Kirjastonkatu
    Finland
    September 28, 2022
    FINALIST
  • 6th Chaniartoon 2022
    Chania
    Greece
    September 16, 2022
    Selection
  • SEMANA ¡VIVA EL CINE!
    Beunos Aires
    Argentina
    September 12, 2022
    South American Premiere
    Selection
  • Bon Dance International Children’s Film Festival
    Ureshino
    Japan
    September 23, 2022
    Selection
  • Tokyo Anime Awards Festival
    Tokyo
    Japan
    March 18, 2023
    Selection
Director Biography - Brent Forrest

Born in Montreal, Brent Forrest is a film director living in Tokyo. He started his career as a gopher at Red Rover studios in Toronto in 1999. There he learned the craft of animation from some of Canada's finest draftsmen. In 2019, together with Tobias Schlage he created the short film Like and Follow which won over 30 international film awards. After a 24-year career in animation he's pivoted into programming full time, and on the side enjoys making films and building tools for animation and VFX artists.

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Director Statement

This is my debut directing a film for MARZA. I was trying to improve my character design skills by taking part in the Character Design Quarterly challenge on Facebook. One of my drawings that was more popular than the others was of a big fat frog samurai. I don’t know how I made the leap but I started asking around what people thought was more interesting: A samurai who used a golf club or a golfer who used a sword - and the answer was unilaterally the first. So the story grew from there. It also didn’t hurt that I grew up next to a golf course and my dad has been drilling golf stories and golf jokes into my brain for the last 40 years.