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2003Directed by Shinichi Suzuki, Koji Yamamura, Isao Takahata, Kihachiro Kawamoto, Jacques Drouin, Co Hoedeman, Yuri Norstein, Raoul Servais, Yôji Kuri, Yuichi Ito, Keita Kurosaka, Mark Baker, Břetislav Pojar, Aleksandr Petrov, Yoichi Kotabe, Reiko Okuyama, Wang Borong, Reiko Yokosuka, Fumio Oi, Tatsutoshi Nomura, Haru Fukushima, Takuya Ishida, Noriko Moritomo, Tatsuo Shimamura, Maya Yonesho, Uruma Delvi, Seiichi Hayashi, Azuru Isshiki, Katsushi Bowda, Masahiro Katayama, Yuko Asano, IKIF, Norio Hikone, Masaaki Mori, Taku Furukawa, Fusako Yusaki
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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).
