Extremely Short

A man sets out in search of the shortest thing in Tokyo, which turns out to be a single syllable uttered by a dying man…
The first installment in a series of animated shorts called “Bungaku Bideo”, Koji Yamamura’s Extremely Short translates into film a powerful story by Hideo Furukawa, read by the author himself.

The Graffiti

The moment the first gleam of sunlight trickled in gently stirring the folds of a shallow sleep—that was when the graffiti appeared . . .
Installment #2 in the “Bungaku Bideo” series fusing Japanese literature and animation, Ryo Orikasa’s hypnotic animated short “The Graffiti” brings to life a prose poem by Makoto Takayanagi, read here by the poet himself.

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