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Winter Days (2003)

Winter Days (2003)

Animation
Release Date: 2003, November 27
Directors: Yuichi Ito, Isao Takahata, Aleksandr Petrov, Keita Kurosaka, Reiko Yokosuka, Koji Yamamura, Břetislav Pojar, Yôji Kuri, Kihachiro Kawamoto, Jacques Drouin, Co Hoedeman, Yuri Norstein, Raoul Servais, Shinichi Suzuki, Mark Baker, Yōichi Kotabe, Reiko Okuyama, Wang Borong
Countries: Japan
Production: IMAGICA, Dentsu Tec

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).

Keywords:

short film stop motion haiku pinscreen