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Short stop-motion animation. Note: This was in fact the second anime adaptation of Miyazawa's story, the first being a 19 minute silhouette animation produced by Nichiei in 1949, directed by Tanaka Yoshitsugu. The famous 1982 cel anime version produced by Oh Production, directed by Takahata Isao was the third anime adaptation. Source: Pelleas

Short animation by Kuri Youji. "A corrosive comment on romantic love by the brilliant Japanese animator Yoji Kuri; a bedraggled male is chased endlessly in alienated landscapes by a voracious female continually repeating the word 'Ai' ('love', in Japanese). Her attempts at domesticating him with a chain fail; but the chase continues, forever." Description from Film as…