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
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.
whimsicalpoignantexperimentalmelancholicvisually inventivebittersweetdreamlikegentlehumanistic
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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