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Animation

Winter Days

2003, Nov 27

0h 43m

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).

Directed by

Yuko Asano, Isao Takahata, Yuri Norstein, Seiichi Hayashi, Shinichi Suzuki, Taku Furukawa, Kihachiro Kawamoto, Uruma Delvi, Yoichi Kotabe, Wang Borong, Tatsuo Shimamura, Azuru Isshiki, Maya Yonesho, Fusako Yusaki, Norio Hikone, Jacques Drouin, Koji Yamamura, Keita Kurosaka, Masahiro Katayama, Yôji Kuri, Noriko Moritomo, Tatsutoshi Nomura, Yuichi Ito, Takuya Ishida, Masaaki Mori, Břetislav Pojar, Mark Baker, Co Hoedeman, IKIF, Katsushi Bowda, Haru Fukushima, Raoul Servais, Reiko Yokosuka, Aleksandr Petrov, Fumio Oi, Reiko Okuyama

Written by

Kihachiro Kawamoto