Extremely Short
Bungaku Bideo ❶
| Original title:
とても短い (Totemo mijikai) | French title: EXTRÊMEMENT COURT | Simplified Chinese title: 很短, 很短 |
| Short animation | April 2024 | US, Japan | 5'18" | 4K | 1:1.85 |
Trailer |
Teaser |
Bungaku Bideo |
Yanai Initiative |
Text & Voice FURUKAWA HIDEO
Music ISAJI SUNAO
Direction & Animation YAMAMURA KOJI
Based on the Short Story "Totemo mijikai" (2010) by FURUKAWA HIDEO
Planning & English Translation MICHAEL EMMERICH
Producer YAMAMURA KOJI, Assistant Producers YAMAMURA SANAE
Co-Production Yamamura Animation
Project Manager, The Yanai Initiative JOKO YUMI, YAMAZAKI SANAE
Production THE YANAI INITIATIVE at UCLA + Waseda University
Voice Recording ERIC SIERCKS, Waseda International House of Literature
Music Performance ISAJI SUNAO, NIIMI KEIKO
Music Mixing ISOBE HIDEAKI
Sound Mixing SHIMADA MASASHI, Aoi Studio
Color Grading & DCP Lab Assist
A man who was looking for the shortest thing in Tokyo uttered the word "da" at the last moment of his life.
This work, produced as the first installment of the ``Bungaku Bideo'' collaboration project between contemporary Japanese literature and animation, is a recitation of ``Totemo mijikai,'' an original work by Hideo Furukawa, by the author himself, and Koji Yamamura handled the animation.
Official Selection (2):
56th Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes, France, 2024.05: World premiere
48th World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb 2024, Croatia, 2024.06, ITME FOR THE MASTERS