Siri Lee - Sakura Gansha - Official Music Video
2025 | Taiwan , Japan | Color | Stereo | 16:9 | VideoBlending Showa-era aesthetics with handcrafted techniques, AI generation and live action, the piece explores female sexual autonomy through stylised symbolism and layered media.
Set to a playful enka-inspired track, the visuals feature floral and fruit motifs—especially mangoes, a Japanese slang for female genitalia—used to suggest desire without direct exposure.
The video ends not with a graphic release, but with an eruption of cherry blossoms—a climax that is floral, symbolic, and entirely led by the female subject.
Awards & Recognitions
2025 - Chroma Awards — Global (Music Video - 1st Place)
2025 - OMNI International AI Film Festival — Australia (Jury Award Winner)
2025 - New York Short Animation Festival — USA (Best AI Animation & Best AI Animation of the Year)
2025 - Athvikvaruni International Film Festival — India (Winner - Best Music Video)
2025 - Shanghai International Short Week — China (Best AI Short)
2025 - Seoul International AI Film Festival (SIAFF) — South Korea (Bronze - Best AI Visual Effect & Silver - AI Music Video)
2025 - Czech International AI Film Festival — Prague, Czech Republic (Best Experimental)
2025 - 33rd Mix Brasil Festival of Diversity — Brazil (Best A.I. Film)
2025 - South Film and Arts Academy Festival — Chile (Best Art Video)
2025 - Taoyuan International Design Award — Taiwan (Silver - Digital & Multimedia Design)
2025 - IndieX Film Fest — Los Angeles, USA (Outstanding Achievement Award - Music Video)
2025 - 37è Girona Film Festival — Spain (Honorable Mention - Music Video)
2025 - Digital Griffix Film Awards — Online (Nominee - Best Music Video, Art Direction & AI Trailer)
2025 - Festival Internacional de Cine BTS — Mexico (Nominee)
2025 - AI Media Award — Switzerland (Selected - AI Animation)
2025 - London Lift-Off Film Festival 2025 — UK (Official Selection)
2025 - First-Time Filmmaker Volume 11 — UK (Official Selection)
2025 - Rome Prisma Film Awards — Italy (Selected - Music Video)
2025 - BAIFF – Burano Artificial Intelligence Film Festival — Italy (Selected - Music Video)
Director: Sijin Hsi-Jen
Animation / AI Craft: Ruby Nian, Hsin Hsin Lin
Shooting: Siri Lee, Amuy Talus Mayaw
Vocal: Siri Lee
Producer: Baby-C Chung, Siri Lee
Lyricist: Siri Lee
Composer: Siri Lee, Uncle Tainan
Arranger: Baby-C Chung
Backing Vocal: Siri Lee
Vocal Recording: Siri Lee
Vocal Recording at: Room 19 Studio
Mixing Engineer: Baby-C Chung
Mixing at: Room 19 Studio
Mastering Engineer: Shao-Ting Sun
Music Production Assistant: YJY Yen, Yu-Chieh Wu
Taiwanese Lyrics Proofreader: N̂g Siong-ngá
English Lyrics Translation: Jessie Lin
Japanese Lyrics Translation: Toko Hung
OP: GoAhead Music Rose Farm and Forest Co., Ltd.
SP: Universal Ms Publ Ltd Taiwan