Using an innovative live-action 3D motion capture process, Foldes captures the memories, dreams and visions of these characters as they attempt to rediscover their true selves.īase on Haruki Murakami short stories: The Wind-up Bird – Tuesday’s Women, Super Frog Saves Tokyo, UFO in Kushiro, Birthday Girl, Dabchick and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. This feature debut by composer Pierre Földes won the Jury Special Mention award at the renowned Annecy Animation Film Festival and the Grand Prize at the Anima Festival in Brussels. Through memories, dreams and fantasies, Kyoko, Komura and Katagiri, influenced by their visions of earthquakes-which are manifested as evil willow trees, giant earthworms, secret vows, mysterious boxes and a dark, endless corridor-attempt to rediscover their true selves. and 1991 and it begins with The Wind-up Bird and Tuesdays Women, which is. His colleague Katagiri, a simple debt collector by profession and an awkward loner in life, returns home one evening to find a two-metre-tall frog asking for his help to save Tokyo from an imminent earthquake. The Japanese author Haruki Murakami has become internationally renowned. Her helpless husband Komura takes a week’s leave from work and heads north to deliver a box and its unknown contents to two young women. Kyoko suddenly leaves her husband after spending five days in a row glued to unfolding earthquake footage on TV. Tokyo, a few days after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Based on several surreal short stories by acclaimed Japanese author Haruki Murakami (Drive My Car, The Windup Bird Chronicle). Inspired by the 2011 Tokyo earthquake & tsunami.
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