Winter Days (2003)

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).

Release Date

November 27, 2003

Runtime

0h 39m

Rating

6.0/10 (20 votes)

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, Yōichi Kotabe, Aleksandr Petrov, Wang Borong, Reiko Yokosuka

Cast: Ryuta Kashiwagi, Noboru Mitani, Kyôko Kishida, Mutsumi Sasaki, Joe Watanabe, Kazutoyo Yoshimi