Winter Days (2003)
November 27, 2003Release Date
Winter Days (2003)
November 27, 2003Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Ryuta Kashiwagi
Noboru Mitani
Kyôko Kishida
Mutsumi Sasaki
Joe Watanabe
Kazutoyo Yoshimi
Kihachiro Kawamoto
Director / Series Director / Writer
Jacques Drouin
Director
Co Hoedeman
Director
Yuri Norstein
Director
Taku Furukawa
Director
Raoul Servais
Director
Shinichi Suzuki
Director
Isao Takahata
Director
Koji Yamamura
Director
Yuichi Ito
Director
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 27, 2003
Original Name冬の日
StatusReleased
Running Time39m
Genres
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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: