History Anime / WinterDays

''Winter Days'' (''Fuyu no Hi'') is an abstract {{anime}} AnthologyFilm. Released in 2003, it is a retelling of the collaborative poem of the same name by Matsuo Bashō. The film follows on the original poem's footsteps by also being a collaborative work: it's split into segments featuring the work of 35 different animators, including [[Animation/HedgehogInTheFog Yuri Norstein]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Harpya}} Raoul Servais]], Creator/AleksandrPetrov, [[WesternAnimation/{{Balablok}} Břetislav Pojar]], Creator/MarkBaker, Creator/IsaoTakahata, [[WesternAnimation/TheSandCastle Co Hoedeman]] and [[Anime/MountHead Kōji Yamamura]]. The film is directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto, who also provides two of the segments.

* NoEnding: Since none of the segments are not connected to each other, the film doesn't have any sort of resolution; after the last segment is done, the film simply plays the credits.

* NoEnding: [[spoiler:After the last segment is done, the film just ends abruptly.]]

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''Winter Days'' (''Fuyu no Hi'') is an {{anime}} AnthologyFilm. Released in 2003, it is a retelling of the collaborative poem of the same name by Matsuo Bashō. The film follows on the original poem's footsteps by also being a collaborative work: it's split into segments featuring the work of 35 different animators, including [[Animation/HedgehogInTheFog Yuri Norstein]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Harpya}} Raoul Servais]], Creator/AleksandrPetrov, [[WesternAnimation/{{Balablok}} Břetislav Pojar]], Creator/MarkBaker, Creator/IsaoTakahata, [[WesternAnimation/TheSandCastle Co Hoedeman]] and [[Anime/MountHead Kōji Yamamura]]. The film is directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto, who also provides two of the segments.

''Winter Days'' (''Fuyu no Hi'') is an {{anime}} AnthologyFilm. Released in 2003, it is a retelling of the collaborative poem of the same name by Matsuo Bashō. The film follows on the original poem's footsteps by also being a collaborative work: it's split into 36 segments, each by a different animator, including [[Animation/HedgehogInTheFog Yuri Norstein]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Harpya}} Raoul Servais]], Creator/AleksandrPetrov, [[WesternAnimation/{{Balablok}} Břetislav Pojar]], Creator/MarkBaker, Creator/IsaoTakahata, [[WesternAnimation/TheSandCastle Co Hoedeman]] and [[Anime/MountHead Kōji Yamamura]]. The film is directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto, who also provides two of the segments.

''Winter Days'' (''Fuyu no Hi'') is a {{short|Film}} {{anime}} AnthologyFilm. Released in 2003, it is a retelling of the collaborative poem of the same name by Matsuo Bashō. The film follows on the original poem's footsteps by also being a collaborative work: it's split into 36 segments, each by a different animator, including [[Animation/HedgehogInTheFog Yuri Norstein]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Harpya}} Raoul Servais]], Creator/AleksandrPetrov, [[WesternAnimation/{{Balablok}} Břetislav Pojar]], Creator/MarkBaker, Creator/IsaoTakahata, [[WesternAnimation/TheSandCastle Co Hoedeman]] and [[Anime/MountHead Kōji Yamamura]]. The film is directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto, who also provides two of the segments.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: The poster removes the exposed nipples in Yoji Kuri's segment and covers the nude Venus in Kōji Yamamura's segment with CensorSteam.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: The poster removes the exposed nipples in Yoji Kuri's segment and covers the nude Venus in Kōji Yamamura's segment with mist.

''Winter Days'' (''Fuyu no Hi'') is a {{short|Film}} {{anime}} AnthologyFilm. Released in 2003, it is a retelling of the collaborative poem of the same name by Matsuo Bashō. The film follows on the original poem's footsteps by also being a collaborative work: it's split into 36 segments, each by a different animator, including [[Animation/HedgehogInTheFog Yuri Norstein]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Harpya}} Raoul Servais]], Creator/AleksandrPetrov, [[WesternAnimation/{{Balablok}} Břetislav Pojar]], [[WesternAnimation/TheHillFarm Mark Baker]], Creator/IsaoTakahata, [[WesternAnimation/TheSandCastle Co Hoedeman]] and [[Anime/MountHead Kōji Yamamura]]. The film is directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto, who also provides two of the segments.

* MediumBlending: The film's bread-and-butter. The various segments use hand-drawn animation, 3D animation, stop-motion, puppetry and cut-out animation.

''Winter Days'' (''Fuyu no Hi'') is a {{short|Film}} {{anime}} AnthologyFilm. Released in 2003, it is a retelling of the collaborative poem of the same name by Matsuo Bashō. The film follows on the original poem's footsteps by also being a collaborative work: it's split into 36 segments, each by a different animator, including [[Animation/HedgehogInTheFog Yuri Norstein]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Harpya}} Raoul Servais]], [[Animation/{{Mermaid}} Aleksandr Petrov]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Balablok}} Břetislav Pojar]], [[WesternAnimation/TheHillFarm Mark Baker]], Creator/IsaoTakahata, [[WesternAnimation/TheSandCastle Co Hoedeman]] and [[Anime/MountHead Kōji Yamamura]]. The film is directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto, who also provides two of the segments.

** Masahiro Katayama's features a crook who is about to shoot someone with an arrow, but gets blinded by a reflection of the moonlight. The arrow misses his target and instead ends up piercing a monk's hat, who just smiles it off.

* DerangedAnimation: Veers into this at points, but most notably Katsushi Boda's segment, which features a man growing butterfly wings and fighting an EldritchAbomination, and culminates with a train floating in space.

%%* FunnyAnimal: Azuru Isshiki, Masahiro Katayama, Yuichi Ito, Masaaki Mori.

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:The bandit in Mark Baker's segment is crushed to death by a falling tree while trying to retrieve the lumberjack's hat, which had stuck to the trunk by an arrow he had shot earlier.]]

%%* DerangedAnimation: Veers into this at points, most notably Katsushi Boda's segment.
%%* EldritchAbomination: Katsushi Boda's segment.

%%* HatDamage: Present in both Masahiro Katayama and Mark Baker's segments.

%% * DerangedAnimation: Veers into this at points, most notably Katsushi Boda's segment.
%% * EldritchAbomination: Katsushi Boda's segment.
%% * FunnyAnimal: Azuru Isshiki, Masahiro Katayama, Yuichi Ito, Masaaki Mori.
%% * HatDamage: Present in both Masahiro Katayama and Mark Baker's segments.
%% * MediumBlending: The film's bread-and-butter.

* NoEnding: [[spoiler:After the last segment is done, the film just ends.]]
* ToiletHumor: Isao Takahata's segment is about an old man going to the toilet.

* ToiletHumor: Isao Takahata's segment is about [[spoiler:a man going to the toilet]].

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* NegativeContiunity: Segments don't have any continuity between each other, focusing instead on providing visual spectacle.