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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Isao Takahata Director · Aleksandr Petrov Director Raoul Servais Director
Director
Isao Takahata
Director
Aleksandr Petrov
Director
Raoul Servais
Director Writer
Kihachiro Kawamoto
Director
Yuri Norstein
Director
Koji Yamamura
Director
Břetislav Pojar
Director
Keita Kurosaka
Director
Jacques Drouin
Director
Yôji Kuri
Director
Co Hoedeman
Director
Shinichi Suzuki
Director
Reiko Okuyama
Director
Yoichi Kotabe
Director
Mark Baker
Director
Yuichi Ito
Director
Reiko Yokosuka
Director
Wang Borong
Director
Tatsuo Shimamura
Director
Taku Furukawa
Director
Norio Hikone
Director
Seiichi Hayashi
Director
Noriko Moritomo
Director
Uruma Delvi
Director
Maya Yonesho
Director
Katsushi Bowda
Director
Yuko Asano
Director
Azuru Isshiki
Director
Fusako Yusaki
Director
Tatsutoshi Nomura
Director
IKIF
Director
Takuya Ishida
Director
Fumio Oi
Director
Haru Fukushima
Director
Masahiro Katayama
Director
Masaaki Mori
Story
Matsuo Bashou
Composer
Shinichiro Ikebe
First release June 19, 2003 · Produced in Japan · Production Dentsu Tec
Production
IMAGICA
Production
Dentsu Tec
Production
Japan
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Original title
冬の日
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Croatia · June 19, 2003
Premiere · Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films
Japan · November 27, 2003
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
France
October 17, 2007 · Theatrical
Japan
November 22, 2003 · Physical · DVD
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