Winter Days (2003)
- Original title
- 冬の日
- Directed by
- Kihachirō Kawamoto
- Genre
- poetry
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 40 min
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 20 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.
How it feels
35 animators from around the world each created a short sequence for one stanza of a 17th century collaborative poem by Bashō. The film weaves these short vignettes together into a single visual poem with no dialogue. The animation styles range widely from puppetry to stop motion.
contemplativemeditativeepisodicdreamlikequietstylizedwhimsicalartistic
What happens
Winter Days (冬の日, Fuyu no Hi) is a 2003 Japanese anime film directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is 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 of 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 (Yuri Norstein's, though, is nearly two minutes long). The released film consists of the 40-minute animation, followed by an hour-long 'Making of' documentary, including interviews with the animators. Winter Days won the Grand Prize of the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2003. Bashō's hokku, or opening verse, of the 36-verse poem: (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Honto Ni Atta!! Toshi Densetsu (2003)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.