Dozens of Norths
2021 • Yamamura Animation, Inc.
- Format
- MOVIE
- Aired
- 2021
- Episodes
- 1
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Yamamura Animation, Inc.
- Genres
- Adventure · Fantasy · Psychological
North is everywhere solitary. Here is all North. This is a record of the people I met in these Norths. However, my memory is fragmented and does not get the point at all. Now I'm starting to wonder my efforts came to nothing. I'm just getting the occasional recognition of the existence of the world through the dull pain changes shape little by little.
"The basis for the animated film “Dozens of Norths” is the series of cover illustrations and short texts that I made across 32 issues of the monthly literary magazine “Bungaku-Kai” (Published by Bungeishunju) from April 2012 to December 2014. In this work, by fantasizing about a fictional movie, I thought of each independent cover as a scene of one larger story and wrote a text for each illustration I made." - Yamamura Kouji
A joint production between 'Yamamura Animation' based in Japan, and 'Miyu Productions' based in France. The film had it's world premier at the '8th New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival' on 6 November 2021.
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Dozens of Norths is a 2021 animated feature directed by Koji Yamamura, a renowned Japanese independent animator known for his surrealist and deeply philosophical short films. The project was conceived as a meditation on the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, aiming to process the collective grief and the ephemeral nature of memory following such a devastating national trauma. Yamamura drew inspiration from the idiosyncratic essays of Atsushi Wada, weaving them into a non-linear narrative structure that prioritizes emotional resonance over traditional storytelling.
The visual design of the film departs from the sleek aesthetics of mainstream anime, favoring a stark, hand-drawn charcoal style that evokes a sense of haunting fragility. Yamamura intentionally employed a muted, monochromatic palette to ground the film's existential inquiries in a somber, grounded reality. Upon its release, the film was widely praised by critics and festival audiences alike for its bravery in artistic experimentation and its profound capacity to translate abstract feelings of loss into a singular, cohesive visual experience.
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