Story of a Certain Street Corner (1962)

Original title

ある街角の物語

Directed by

Eiichi Yamamoto

Genre

fantasy film

Country

Japan

Runtime

38 min

Rated

NR

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This animated short shows the lives of people and objects on a city street corner. It tells overlapping stories about loss, connection, and the fight to keep making art. The filmmaker used the film to express his own struggles with money and creativity.

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What happens

Histoires du coin de la rue (ある街角の物語, Aru machikado no monogatari) est un court métrage d’animation japonais produit en 1962 par Osamu Tezuka au sein de son studio Mushi Production, dont c’est le tout premier travail. Il s’agit d’une œuvre expérimentale illustrant le message humaniste récurrent de Tezuka et exprimant sa frustration de créateur face aux exigences économiques. Il a remporté plusieurs récompenses lors de sa sortie. En France, le film est sorti en 2006 accompagné de deux courts métrages, La Sirène et Autoportrait, si bien que les Histoires du coin de la rue y désignent la compilation des trois œuvres. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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