Official selection
Cannes Film Festival Directors' Fortnight 2024
Animafest Zagreb 2024
Director
Koji Yamamura
Writer
Hideo Fuirukawa
Composer
Sunao Isaji
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Yamamura Animation
The shortest thing in Tokyo is a single syllable uttered by a dying man. The first in a series of animated shorts called Bungaku Bideo (“literature videos”), pairing filmmakers with writers, finds award-winner Koji Yamamura (DOZENS OF NORTHS) adapting a story by Hideo Furukawa, read by the author himself. – Rupert Bottenberg
Showings
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