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Winter Days

Animation
6.0·2003·0h 39m

An animated film based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bash...

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Cast

Ryuta Kashiwagi

Ryuta Kashiwagi

Noboru Mitani

Noboru Mitani

Kyôko Kishida

Kyôko Kishida

Mutsumi Sasaki

Mutsumi Sasaki

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Joe Watanabe

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Kazutoyo Yoshimi

DIRECTORS

Shinichi Suzuki, Koji Yamamura, Isao Takahata, Kihachiro Kawamoto, Jacques Drouin, Co Hoedeman, Yuri Norstein, Raoul Servais, Yôji Kuri, Yuichi Ito, Keita Kurosaka, Mark Baker, Břetislav Pojar, Aleksandr Petrov, Yōichi Kotabe, Reiko Okuyama, Wang Borong, Reiko Yokosuka

OVERVIEW

An animated film based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material – the visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. As well as many Japanese animators, Kawamoto assembled leading names in animation from across the world. Each animator was asked to contribute at least 30 seconds to illustrate their stanza, and most of the sequences are under a minute (Yuriy Norshteyn's, though, is nearly two minutes long).