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Released
2003 · FILM

Winter Days

Runtime
39 min
Language
JA
Animation

Synopsis

An animated film inspired by one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) from the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō, the film mirrors the collaborative nature of its source material. The visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. Kawamoto brought together leading animators from Japan and around the world for the project. Each contributor was asked to provide at least 30 seconds of animation for their assigned stanza, with most sequences lasting under a minute. An exception is Yuriy Norshteyn's contribution, which runs nearly two minutes in length.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 13

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Scored by Shinichiro Ikebe

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