Kawamoto Kihachirou

Winter Days is an amazing, visually stunning collaboration of the greatest animation masters in the world joining forces to create a visual Renku, a style of poetry specific to Japan whereby composers write a poem as a group, each poet creating a different verse. Winter Days is taken from the famous Japanese poet Basho's Seven Poetry Collection, the paradigm of the sho-fu…

The film "To Shoot without Shooting" is based upon the short story "Meijin-den" (The Story of a Master) by Japanese author Atsutshi Nakajima (1909-1942) The hero of this story derived from Chinese tradition is Ji Chang an adapt in archery who in the end forgets that such a weapon as a bow exists.