
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).
Cast
Crew
Shinichi Suzuki
Director

Koji Yamamura
Director

Isao Takahata
Director

Kihachiro Kawamoto
Director, Series Director, Writer

Jacques Drouin
Director

Co Hoedeman
Director

Yuri Norstein
Director

Raoul Servais
Director

Yôji Kuri
Director
Yuichi Ito
Director

Keita Kurosaka
Director

Mark Baker
Director

Břetislav Pojar
Director

Aleksandr Petrov
Director

Yōichi Kotabe
Director

Reiko Okuyama
Director

Wang Borong
Director
Reiko Yokosuka
Director
Tatsuo Shimamura
Producer

Shinichiro Ikebe
Original Music Composer
Matsuo Bashou
Original Story
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