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Nihiki no Sanma (Color Version)
- Format
- MOVIE
- Episodes
- 1
- Status
- Finished
- Genres
- Adventure · Science fiction
Remake of the 1960 film with the same name in color that tells the story of a man and a woman who go by raft to a remote desert island with chickens and a dog. At first, it is a kind of paradise for them. They farm and fish following the same routine every day, feasting on grilled sanma that they roast out in the open. One day, their harmony gets interrupted by a mustachioed scientist on a raft powered by an abused pig. This unwanted visitor constructs a robot which begins the process of industrialization on the island. The couple are disgruntled but decide to put up with the man and his technology.
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Where it came from
Nihiki no Sanma, or Two Saury, is a representative work of the renowned Japanese animator Kihachiro Kawamoto. Produced in the early 1970s, the short film showcases Kawamoto's mastery of stop-motion puppetry, a craft he honed after studying under the legendary Jiri Trnka in Prague. The film was created within the context of the burgeoning Japanese independent animation scene, where artists sought to elevate puppet animation into a sophisticated medium for storytelling.
The design of the characters reflects a deep engagement with traditional Japanese aesthetic sensibilities, blending precise, atmospheric lighting with intricately crafted puppets that carry immense expressive weight. While Kawamoto's work was initially more widely recognized within international film festival circuits and experimental animation circles than in mainstream commercial theaters, it remains highly regarded for its technical innovation and its profound, poetic influence on subsequent generations of stop-motion filmmakers.
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