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.
00:00:39 Suddenly remembering that master of mad verse who travelled long ago in this province, I wrote...
00:03:58 who's that? Sasanqua spraying over a rain hat
00:05:57 a red-haired horse shaking dew off its mane
00:08:01 in the scattered light harvesting rice plants in the fields
00:09:47 having to hide while the hair grows back
00:12:10 by an unfading stupa sobbing with heavy heart
00:14:17 an empty house the owners disappeared from poverty
00:16:39 a man pulling the boat in the mist - is he lame?
00:18:54 retiring from court to a street of gossipy neighbours
00:20:46 "butterflies in the thick weeds" she wept blowing her nose
00:22:50 "now's the time!" releasing an arrow of resentment
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
00:29:27 squid shells divination in a barbarian country
00:31:24 a long night consuming an urn of autumn water
00:33:19 a lute player sticking rose of Sharon in his hood
00:35:15 carrying on the head a basket of shad
00:37:06 today going to the eyebrow ceremony for the younger sister