Overview

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).

1. Kihachiro Kawamoto

   Director, Writer

2. Jacques Drouin

   Director

3. Co Hoedeman

   Director

4. Yuri Norstein

   Director

5. Raoul Servais

   Director

6. Shinichi Suzuki

   Director

7. Isao Takahata

   Director

8. Koji Yamamura

   Director

9. Yuichi Ito

   Director

10. Yôji Kuri

    Director

11. Keita Kurosaka

    Director

12. Mark Baker

    Director

13. Břetislav Pojar

    Director

14. Aleksandr Petrov

    Director

15. Yoichi Kotabe

    Director

16. Reiko Okuyama

    Director

17. Wang Borong

    Director

18. Reiko Yokosuka

    Director