Winter Days

Winter Days

Infobox Film
name = Winter Days


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director = Kihachirō Kawamoto
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writer = Matsuo Bashō
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released = 2003 (Japan)
runtime = 105 min. (40 min. animation)
country = Japan
language = Japanese
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imdb_id = 0437198nihongo|"Winter Days"|冬の日|Fuyu no Hi 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).

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.

The poem [ [http://www.ese.yamanashi.ac.jp/~itoyo/basho/shitibusyu/huyunohi.htm Original poem text] (Japanese). Translation here by Yumegusa.]

The animated segments

The sequences and animators are listed in order of appearance.

DVD releases

The film is currently available in four DVD versions, none of which has English dubbing or subtitles.
*Regular Japanese release, November 22, 2003 (R2, NTSC). Contains original film (40+65 min), no subtitles.
*"Complete Box" Japanese release, November 22, 2003 (R2, NTSC). Contains film + eight additional DVDs with making-of featurettes (total: 945 mins). No subtitles.
*Korean "RABA Animation" release, February 7, 2006 (R3, NTSC). Contains Korean subtitles; otherwise, identical to "regular" Japanese release in all but the the region encoding and price.
*French release, June 20, 2008 (R2, PAL). Original animation with French audio, and 'making-of' with French sub-titles. [Review on [http://www.fichesducinema.com/spip/article.php3?id_article=812 "Les Fiches du cinéma"] website]

ee also

*List of films based on poems
*List of animated feature films
*List of stop-motion films
*Renku
*Matsuo Bashō

Notes

External links

*imdb title|id=0437198|title=Winter Days
* [http://www.kinoart.ru/magazine/04-2004/experience/norstein0404/ In-depth interview with Yuriy Norshteyn about his segment] ru icon ( [http://niffiwan.livejournal.com/4212.html#cutid1 English translation] )
* [http://www.mediafire.com/?fjaym5yr4hi Link to English subtitles for film] (31 scanned GIF pages and .srt file for the main film)
* [http://youtube.com/watch?v=xEF57wbiHu8 Excerpt from the film: Yuriy Norshteyn's animation of the opening verse (requires Flash)]
* [http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/switch-language/product/B0000CET96?language=en%5FJP amazon.co.jp's product page for this DVD]


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