Winter Days

An animated film 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 in 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).

• Isao TakahataDirector
• Raoul ServaisDirector
• Shinichi SuzukiDirector
• Koji YamamuraDirector
• Jacques DrouinDirector
• Co HoedemanDirector
• Kihachiro KawamotoDirector
• Yuri NorsteinDirector
• Yôji KuriDirector
• Yuichi ItoDirector
• Keita KurosakaDirector
• Mark BakerDirector
• Shinichiro IkebeOriginal Music Composer
• Břetislav PojarDirector
• Reiko OkuyamaDirector
• Yoichi KotabeDirector
• Aleksandr PetrovDirector
• Wang BorongDirector
• Kihachiro KawamotoWriter
• Reiko YokosukaDirector

• Ryuta KashiwagiCast
• Noboru MitaniCast
• Kyôko KishidaCast
• Mutsumi SasakiCast
• Joe WatanabeCast
• Kazutoyo YoshimiCast