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“BLIND WILLOW, SLEEPING WOMAN”

sleeping-woman bus-stop 8-oclock kitchen K-shot corridor

wake up!  An earthquake and a giant frog help characters to reveal “truths they’ve been hiding from themselves.”

This film is aimed not only at the millions of Murakami fans around the world, but also at a public into innovative story telling which has been defined as magical realism, and for which animation is a great medium. Stories are made up of memories, dreams and fantasies, influenced by individual visions of the earthquake – in the form of evil trees, a giant worm, a secret wish, an unknown password, a mysterious empty box and dark endless corridors – in which the main characters try to reconnect with who they really are.

 

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woman sleeping copy corridor katagiri mug kyoko profile plane katagiri living room Manager kyoko in the clouds katagiri profile red manager 1 shimao close up kitchen grey Old man Shimao vector-01 katagiri close up old man again shimao soul kitchen wh OnlyOneWish komura strangle worm - face scribble katagiri shot

 

directed by Pierre Földes
animation feature film adapted from short stories by Haruki Murakami


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