DirectorWinter 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).

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Kihachirō Kawamoto (川本 喜八郎) was a Japanese puppet designer and maker, independent film director, screenwriter and animator and president of the Japan Animation Association from 1989, succeeding founder Osamu Tezuka, until his own death. He is best-remembered in Japan as designer of the puppets for the long-running NHK live action television series of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in the early …

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Winter Days

Winter Days

Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty

Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty

The Book of the Dead

The Book of the Dead

The Demon

The Demon

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To Shoot Without Shooting

To Shoot Without Shooting

Dojoji Temple

Dojoji Temple

Animated Self-Portraits

Animated Self-Portraits

A Poet's Life

A Poet's Life

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