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).
Genre: Animation
Stars: Ryuta Kashiwagi, Noboru Mitani, Kyôko Kishida, Mutsumi Sasaki, Joe Watanabe, Kazutoyo Yoshimi
Crew: Kihachiro Kawamoto (Director), Jacques Drouin (Director), Co Hoedeman (Director), Yuri Norstein (Director), Raoul Servais (Director), Shinichi Suzuki (Director)
Country: Japan
Language: 日本語
Studio: IMAGICA, Dentsu Tec
Runtime: 39 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Nov 27, 2003
IMDb: 5.3
