Fujiya & Miyagi took their name from a brand of a record player and a character from Karate Kid, and they’re not japanese at all, they’re from Brighton, UK. They are not even two, instead they’re three people, so don’t trust appearences. You shouldn’t trust appearences even watching this video, in fact it looks like a pixel art video but it isn’t, as you will understand watching the clip. Those squares that looks like pixels are hundreds, maybe thousands of coloured dices meticulously animated in stop-motion by Wade Shotter. This mad man is a British director who likes to produce work with a visually strong edge and a solid concept that engages and surprises and, trust me, he’s very good at doing it.

It’s very interesting the way colours are rendered in this clip. While hue is given by dice’s colour, luminance depends on the number of the dice: higher numbers return brighter colours, because, obviously, there are more white dots on dice’s face. In this way some shots, for example the ones with the guitar player, are composed of two kinds of dots, black for the figure and white for the background; lights and shadows of the figures are done with the technique i described previously. Other shots are simply realized with different coloured dices with the same face facing the camera, these ones look like 80s computer‘s videogames, if you remember them like I do you’ll like this video a lot.