Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Saules aveugles, femme endormie (Motion picture)

Title:

Blind willow, sleeping woman / The Match Factory presents a Production Cinéma Defacto and Miyu Productions ; written and directed by Pierre Földes.

Publisher, Date:

New York, NY : Zeitgeist Films, [2023]

Description:

1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

A giant talking frog and an elusive cat help a listless bank employee, his traumatized wife, and a lonely accountant seek meaning in their lives and possibly save Tokyo from catastrophe in this animated feature based on stories by acclaimed Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The feature debut of composer Pierre Foldes, the film won the Jury Special Mention at the renowned Annecy Animation Film Festival and the Grand Prize at the Anima Festival in Brussels. In Tokyo, not long after the 2011 earthquake, Kyoko suddenly leaves her husband Komura after spending five days glued to the news on TV. Komura takes a week's leave from work and heads north to deliver a box and its unknown contents to two young women. His colleague Katagiri, a simple debt collector by profession and an awkward loner in life, returns home one evening to find a 7-foot-tall frog asking for his help to save Tokyo from a tsunami.

Subjects:

Japan -- Social life and customs -- Drama.

Genre:

Animated films.

Film adaptations.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Földes, Pierre J. (Pierre Justin), film director, screenwriter.

Crayencour, Amaury de, voice actor.

Auneveux, Mathilde, voice actor.