¡Blind Willow. Sleeping Woman
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[Machine Translation] The first animated film based on Haruki Murakami's novel! Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2022 Special Jury Prize in the Feature Film Competition! Grand Prix in Competition at the 1st Niigata Animation Film Festival! The film had a long run in theaters and was an exceptionally big hit for an art animation film. The mysterious world of Haruki Murakami's works is beautifully visualized! The Japanese dubbed version is directed by film director Koji Fukada with talented actors including Yuto Isomura, Genri, Shinya Tsukamoto, and Kanji Furudate. Animation director Pierre Foldes reconstructed six of Haruki Murakami's short stories, "KERO-kun Saves Tokyo," "Birthday Girl," "Itsukuburi," "Twisted Bird and Tuesday Women," "UFO Descends in Kushiro," and "The Blind Willow and the Sleeping Woman," making this the first animation film based on a Haruki Murakami novel. The mysterious and vivid reality of Murakami's works is beautifully visualized with his unique technique based on live-action photography and meticulous sound design. Haruki Murakami's unique motifs, such as the blind and the grasshopper, the giant worm, and the endless dark corridors, are recreated in a magic realistic worldview that could only be expressed through animation. The film depicts a story of three people who are stuck in their lives, wandering through distant memories and dreams, confronting themselves, and slowly liberating themselves. --The film takes place in Tokyo in 2011, immediately after the Great East Japan Earthquake. Kyoko, who had been watching the news on TV to watch the damage every second, disappears from Komura's life, leaving behind a letter. Stunned by his wife's sudden disappearance, Komura heads for Hokkaido to deliver a small box with unknown contents to his colleague's sister. One evening around the same time, Komura's colleague Katagiri returns home to find a two-meter tall giant "frog-kun" waiting for him. The frog asks the unassuming and timid Katagiri for help in saving Tokyo from the oncoming earthquake. 4C picture label. Original postcard enclosed.
Original Release Year: 2022
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