Winter Days (2003) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

2003 · 39 mins · Japanese

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Directed by

Koji Yamamura, Shinichi Suzuki

Starring

Kazutoyo Yoshimi, Mutsumi Sasaki, Kyôko Kishida, Noboru Mitani, Joe Watanabe, Ryuta Kashiwagi

Winter Days (2003) is an animated anthology directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto, based on a 1684 renku collection by Bashō. In keeping with the linked‑poem tradition, each of the 36 stanzas is illustrated by a different animator—35 artists from Japan and abroad—who contributed roughly 30 seconds of footage, most under a minute, while Yuriy Norshteyn’s segment runs close to two minutes.