Winter Days - Animated Segments

Animated Segments

Norshteyn animated the opening stanza (hokku) as the special guest (kyaku). Chikusai is running around listening to trees, and meets Bashō. He's awed, but is amused to see that Bashō is picking bugs out of a cloak that is as torn as his own. He gives Bashō his own hat in exchange for Bashō's (which has a gaping hole at the top) and goes away. Suddenly, the wind picks up and blows the torn hat away. Chikusai chases after it and manages to catch it, but then with a shrug lets it go and allows it to fly off wherever the wind will take it. Meanwhile, Bashō is moving slowly and laboriously against the wind, with a hand on his new hat to keep it from flying away.

Speaking at the November 30, 2007 Russian theatrical premiere of Winter Days, Norshteyn said that he had made a longer, 3-minute version of this segment, but had not yet added sound to it.

Kawamoto animated the second (waki) and final (ageku) stanzas as the organiser (shōshō).

# Poet Animator Length
 Type Country
1 Bashō Yuriy Norshteyn 110 cut-out Russia
2 Yasui Kihachirō Kawamoto 52 puppet Japan
3 Kakei Fumio Oi 44 CGI Japan
4 Jūgo Tatsutoshi Nomura 48 cel Japan
5 Tokoku Shinichi Suzuki 51 cel Japan
6 Shōhei Haru Fukushima 47 vector animation Japan
7 Yasui Tatsuya Ishida Japan
8 Bashō Raoul Servais Belgium
9 Jūgo Noriko Morita Japan
10 Kakei Tatsuo Shimamura Japan
11 Bashō Yōichi Kotabe &
Reiko Okuyama		 Japan
12 Tokoku Aleksandr Petrov paint-on-glass Russia
13 Kakei Maya Yonesho Japan
14 Yasui Yoji Kuri Japan
15 Tokoku Uruma Delvi Japan
16 Jūgo Seiichi Hayashi Japan
17 Yasui Azuru Isshiki Japan
18 Bashō Břetislav Pojar Canada
Czech Republic
19 Jūgo Katsushi Boda Japan
20 Kakei Masahiro Katayama Japan
21 Bashō Mark Baker UK
22 Tokoku Yuichi Ito Japan
23 Kakei Keita Kurosaka Japan
24 Yasui Reiko Yokosuka Japan
25 Tokoku Yuko Asano Japan
26 Jūgo IKIF Japan
27 Yasui Bairong Wang
28 Bashō Isao Takahata Japan
29 Jūgo Nori Hikone Japan
30 Kakei Masaaki Mori Japan
31 Bashō Taku Furukawa Japan
32 Tokoku Co Hoedeman Canada
Netherlands
33 Kakei Jacques Drouin pinscreen Canada
34 Yasui Fusako Yusaki Japan
35 Tokoku Kōji Yamamura 40 Japan
36 Jūgo Kihachirō Kawamoto puppet Japan

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