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).

Directed by Shinichi Suzuki and Koji Yamamura and Isao Takahata and Kihachiro Kawamoto and Jacques Drouin and Co Hoedeman and Yuri Norstein and Raoul Servais and Yôji Kuri and Yuichi Ito and Keita Kurosaka and Mark Baker and Břetislav Pojar and Aleksandr Petrov and Yoichi Kotabe and Reiko Okuyama and Wang Borong and Reiko Yokosuka