Information:  - He was born in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan.  - Talking Head (    Tkingu Heddo ) is a 1992 live action film written and directed by Mamoru Oshii . It 's a surreal meta - film mystery involving the production of an anime called Talking Head . The film has many references to the anime industry with characters being named after animators such as Yasuo tsuka and Ichir Itano , designer Yutaka Izubuchi , writer Kazunori It , and composer Kenji Kawai . The director of the film within the film is named Rei Maruwa , which was a pseudonym for Oshii on several of his projects . The film features a short anime segment by famous character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto ( of Macross fame ) .  - Biography. tsuka was born in Shimane Prefecture. During a visit to Tsuwano at the age of 10, he saw a steam locomotive for the first time. He began to take an interest in locomotives and their operation and would frequently sketch them. In 1945 his family moved to Yamaguchi Prefecture where there was a military base. He began to draw the array of military vehicles located there while also drawing a variety of subjects in different styles. Otsuka also collected cuttings of cartoon strips into scrapbooks to learn more about drawing styles. Otsuka later joined the Yamaguchi's Beurau of Statistics but wanted to become a political cartoonist in Tokyo. However at the time, permission was needed to move to Tokyo so he applied to the Health and Welfare Ministry. After passing the exam he was assigned to the drug enforcement division as an assistant who maintained the firearms of the agents. Around this time he suffered from Tuberculosis.  - The Oki Islands in the Sea of Japan are also part of Shimane Prefecture, which also claims to have jurisdiction over the South Korea-controlled island of Liancourt Rocks ("Korean: Dokdo(), Japanese: Takeshima()").    After reading the paragraphs above, choose the best answer for the entity that related to 'talking head ' with the relationship of 'country of origin'.  Choices: - japan  - south korea
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japan