Winter Days
2003 · 39 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 497 VOTES · DIR. Reiko Yokosuka, Isao Takahata, Raoul Servais, Keita Kurosaka, Reiko Okuyama, Yôji Kuri, Kihachiro Kawamoto, Koji Yamamura, Mark Baker, Břetislav Pojar, Yuichi Ito, Shinichi Suzuki, Wang Borong, Yuri Norstein, Jacques Drouin, Aleksandr Petrov, Co Hoedeman, Yōichi Kotabe
Overview
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).
Dialogue Timeline — 76 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:02 English translation by Haruo Shirane at Columbia University.
00:00:33 Accustomed as I am to extreme poverty, I feel sorry for myself.
00:02:53 mad verse: in the withering gusts a wanderer - how much like Chikusai I have become!
00:04:03 making the Master of Early Dawn construct a brewery - Kakei. animation: Fumio Oi
00:06:00 Korean grass the long thin blades colorless - Tokoku. animation: Shn-ichi Suzuki
00:08:01 in the scattered light harvesting rice plants in the fields
00:09:00 having to hide while the hair grows back - Basho. animation: Raoul Servais
00:10:58 "the pain of deception" she thought squeezing her dry breasts
00:13:21 a silhouette in the early dawn cold lighting a fire
00:14:21 in a rice field the Koman willow dropping its leaves - Kakei. animation: Maya Yonesho
00:16:39 a man pulling the boat in the mist - is he lame?
00:18:03 retiring from court to a street of gossipy neighbours - Jugo. animation: Seiichi Hayashi
00:19:53 "butterflies in the thick weeds" she wept blowing her nose - Basho. animation: Bretislav Pojar
00:21:58 a palanquin: behind a bamboo blind faintly a face
00:22:53 a pine in memory of a bandit bends broken by the wind - Basho. animation: Mark Baker
00:25:45 for a while it lasted a stream named for Sogi
00:27:47 parting the withered winter grass a single green endive
00:28:51 squid shells divination in a barbarian country - Jugo. animation: I.K.I.F.
00:30:18 I can't solve sorrow's mystery a cuckoo
00:31:28 at the temple lodging of Japan's Li Po-moon gazing - Jugo. animation: Norio Hikone
00:33:22 an offering to the traces of a dead ox grass at dusk - Basho. animation: Taku Furukawa
00:35:15 carrying on the head a basket of shad
00:36:15 today going to the eyebrow ceremony for the younger sister - Yasui. animation: Fusako Yusaki
00:38:03 the walkway reflecting the shadows of wisteria - Jugo. animation: Kihachiro Kawamoto