Line #9 Anime/WinterDays


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3	''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 [[Animation/KihachiroKawamotoShorts Kihachirō Kawamoto]], who also provides two of the segments.
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5	!!''Winter Days'' provides examples of:
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7	* AnimalReactionShot: Yoji Kuri's segment has a frog react to the couple's lovemaking by [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere jumping into the water]].
8	* AnnoyingArrows: The stray arrow in Masahiro Katayama's segment misses several potential targets, including a samurai who had already been pierced by hundreds of other arrows.
9	* TheBurlesqueOfVenus: Kōji Yamamura's segment features a young woman standing in the classic "Venus" pose surrounded by angels.
10	* CreatorCameo: [=UrumaDelvi=]'s segment stars their two {{Author Avatar}}s, who appeared in several more of their animations.
11	* DerangedAnimation: Veers into this at points. Some notable examples:
12	** Noriko Morita's segment is animated in a very erratic manner, and features a woman being savagely attacked while the sounds of a crying baby ring in the background, as well as some BodyHorror.
13	** Katsushi Boda's segment features a man growing butterfly wings and fighting an EldritchAbomination, and culminates with a train floating in space.
14	* EldritchAbomination: Katsushi Boda's segment features a giant monster. Although he is vaguely human-like, most of his body seems to be made out of pulsating tentacles.
15	%%* FunnyAnimal: Azuru Isshiki, Masahiro Katayama, Yuichi Ito and Masaaki Mori's segments feature these.
16	* HatDamage: Both Masahiro Katayama and Mark Baker interpret this line of the original poem as this.
17	-->"Now's the time!", releasing an arrow of resentment.
18	** Masahiro Katayama's segment 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.
19	** Mark Baker's segment features a bandit who gets the attention of a lumberjack he is planning to mug by shooting him with an arrow, which pierces his hat before landing on a nearby tree.
20	* 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.]]
21	* MaleFrontalNudity: Mark Baker's segment is about a lumberjack who is mugged by a bandit, who demands everything he has on him, including his pants.
22	* MediumBlending: The film's bread-and-butter. The various segments use hand-drawn animation, 3D animation, stop-motion, puppetry, cut-out animation, paint-on-glass animation, cel animation, pinscreen animation, and more.
23	* NegativeContinuity: Segments don't have any continuity between each other, focusing instead on providing visual spectacle.
24	* NoEnding: Since none of the segments are 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.
25	* SilenceIsGolden: Outside of the reading of the original poem in-between segments, the film is completely devoid of dialogue.
26	* ToiletHumour: Isao Takahata's segment is about an old man going to the toilet.

Context Anime / WinterDays