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Winter Days
JAPAN · 2003

Winter Days

Isao Takahata
Japanese poetry collaborative art classical literature adaptation linked verse tradition 17th century culture
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Synopsis

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 lea

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