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Winter Days

Winter Days

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 27, 2003

Runtime

0h 39m

Genres

Animation

User Score

57%

Original Title

冬の日

Production Companies

IMAGICA, Dentsu Tec

Director

Shinichi Suzuki

Description

Winter Days is a 2003 animated 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 (Yuriy Norshteyn's, though, is nearly two minutes long).