Studio Chizu

Studio Chizu is a Japanese animation studio based in Suginami, Tokyo, Japan. It was co-founded by Mamoru Hosoda and Yuichiro Saito in 2011. Studio Chizu has won two Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year awards.

Studio Chizu co-produced its first feature film Wolf Children with Madhouse which was released in 2012 earning roughly $55 million and winning its first Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year. The studio went on to produce The Boy and the Beast which was released in 2015 earning roughly $49 million and winning for a second time the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year.