Winter Days

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).

Directors

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

Writer

Kihachiro Kawamoto

Released

November 27, 2003

Language

Japanese