Kenji Miyazawa

A hunter who lives in the mountain knows the bears well. She apologizes to each bear every time she kills one, but she has to, for it is how she makes her living. One evening, she comes across a bear and when she is about to kill it, the bear speaks to her.

A girl moves from the city and goes to school in the country due to some circumstances in her father's job. Her new schoolmates keep her at a distance. There is a boy she'd like to get to know better, but she worries about how he might treat her and doesn't try to get closer. She begins to hate life in the countryside and longs to return to the city, but she ends up meeting a real god of wind.

The stars in the sky seem to maintain the remote, eternal order which earthbound souls can hardly hope to attain, as it would take exceptional energy to transform oneself from an earthly creature into a brightly shining star. However, the ugly nighthawk who had experienced great hardship being despised by fellow birds managed to convert that hardship into enormous energy to fly up to heaven, and in the end could glow as the nighthawk star. A short made by Ryu Kato celebrating Kenji Miyazawa's 80+ years of fairy tales based on the story of the same name. (Source: The World of Kenji Miyazawa)

Главным героем этой истории является Будори. Он счастливо жил с родителями и сестрой в лесах Тохоку, но из-за рано наступившей и очень холодной зимы в один миг потерял всю свою семью. Оставшись один, Будори пытается жить дальше и устраивается на работу к ученым, занимающимися исследованием вулканов. Через некоторое время герой узнает, что катастрофа, разрушившая его жизнь, может произойти снова. Тогда Будори решает любой ценой предотвратить это. Но как ему это сделать? Сможет ли он спасти других? И получится ли у него это? На эти вопросы и ответит данная история.

Having abandoned modern civilization, Ryoichi lives an isolated, self-sufficient life on a snow-covered mountain and sends mail bombs to the CEOs of corporations and TV networks. One day, he encounters a mysterious creature in the forest. That night, his older brother, who had committed suicide, appears before him at his cabin. The apparition takes Ryoichi beyond a door, where Ryoichi learns the truth about his family.

Steel-worker Saito Tetsuo, driven by an unexplained anxiety, steals bike after bike to move away from his hometown to Tokyo. Through snow-storms and empty landscapes, the breathtaking photography allows us to look deep into the mindscape of a man searching for an answer - although the question itself is never quite articulated.

Танэямагахара, там почти всегда облачно, так что, естественно, нередки туманы, дожди и грозы. Там есть широкие луга, где пасутся лошади. Там вокруг костра сидят люди. Они собирались косить траву, поэтому терпеливо ждали рассвета...

Танэямагахара, там почти всегда облачно, так что, естественно, нередки туманы, дожди и грозы. Там есть широкие луга, где пасутся лошади. Там вокруг костра сидят люди. Они собирались косить траву, поэтому терпеливо ждали рассвета...

Welcome aboard the fantasy train in the stars! "Fantasy Railroad in the Stars" is a fantastic journey of a boy, Giovanni, in a dreamscape created into a colourful full-dome CG animation picture with inspiring background music. Based on the famous Ginga Tetsudou no Yoru story written by Kenji Miyazawa in the early 20th century, Kagaya, a digital fine artist, has breathed new life into the unique imaginary world using creativity and precise astronomical knowledge. The starry sky is depicted as the Celestial Field made up of a river, a field of silver grasses, flowers, birds, survey towers, railway signals and more. Across this amazing beautiful scenery, the Celestial Railroad runs along the Milky Way. It is a fantasy world in full colour, but designed with scientific accuracy.

Based on the story by Kenji Miyazawa in which two hunters get lost in the woods and discover a strange restaurant which makes a number of increasingly strenuous demands.

Claymation adaptation of Kenji Miyazawa's short tale about a pair of hunters that, after getting lost on the mountains, find themselves looking for a meal at the mysterious Wildcat House restaurant. Faced with endless corridors and doors, and many signs asking them to do a series of confusing actions, the gentlemen start questioning what kind of place the restaurant might actually be behind all these doors.

Фильм повествует о важнейшем периоде короткой, но очень яркой жизни знаменитого японского писателя начала прошлого века Миядзавы Кэндзи, когда он начал преподавать в сельской школе родной префектуры Иватэ, которую в своих книгах великий выдумщик и мечтатель Кэндзи вывел под названием Ихатов (чтобы лучше понять богатейший творческий мир писателя, все герои фильма представлены в виде животных, в основном котов). Ученики обожали своего эксцентричного сэнсэя, учившего их видеть красоту природы и слышать голоса звёзд, растений и камней. Молодому идеалисту (и истовому буддисту) было нелегко сохранить веру, когда на его глазах угасала от туберкулёза любимая сестра.

A short anime based on Kenji Miyazawa's fairytale "Twin Stars" where Chunse Doji and Boze Doji live in the Milky Way.

A young boy named Gusukō lives in the countryside with his parents and little sister. A string of droughts and other natural disasters tear the family apart, and Gusukō is forced to leave home and seek his fortunes on his own. Driven by a desire to improve the quality of life of his poor countrymen, he eventually joins a group of scientists called the Ihatov Volcano Department; he takes part in scientific projects to fight the natural disasters that drove him from his home.

A short film based on a story by Japanese writer Kenji Miyazawa in which two young British hunters get lost in the woods and discover a strange restaurant. Are the hunters about to discover how it feels to be hunted?

Karin has lived alone in a secluded mountain village with her consumptive mother since her father died. Her worried grandfather advises her to send her mother to a sanatorium and be adopted by him, although she refuses to accept. On the Buddhist All Soul’s Day Festival in August, a messenger from her grandfather pays a sudden visit to her house.

The Acorns and the Wildcat is a unique short film in picture-book format from the creator of Night on the Galactic Railroad and Gauche the Cellist. Unusually for an anime, a narrator reads Kenji's story aloud while the action is played out on the screen by a succession of warm and evocative illustrations brought to life by subtle touches of animation. If the film feels somehow familiar yet you can't put your finger on the reason why, it's probably the sumptuously minimalist animation by Yasuhiro Nagura, who was the animation director of Mamoru Oshii's artsy 1986 feature Angel's Egg. That, and Kenji's wildcat is said to have been the inspiration for Miyazaki's Panda/Totoro creature. The idea of reading Kenji's story aloud instead of playing it out as a drama is quite refreshing, and Kenji's magical language and narrative style are entirely sufficient to sustain interest. Combined with the spacey music and breathtaking art, the result is a pleasantly unassuming little gem of a film.

A foreign transfer student from the city arrives one day in a Japanese country town. Enchanted by his air of mystery, his classmates nickname him "Matasaburou the Wind Imp" after a local legend. Eventually they become friends and spend many days playing in the countryside. One windy day, Matasaburou returns to the city, leaving his classmates to speculate that he really was Matasaburou the Wind Imp and that he flew away on the wind.

Джованни родом из бедной семьи. Его мать больна, отец пропал, а сам он за гроши разносит газеты. В день Фестиваля Звёзд он отправился за молоком для матери, но устал и заснул на холме. Проснулся Джованни от шума поезда, который спустился к нему с неба. Загадочным образом его перенесло внутрь состава, где он сразу же увидел своего старого друга, Кампанеллу. Внезапно поезд тронулся, взмыл в небо и отправился в путешествие по звёздам. Но где конечная станция? Кто эти странные пассажиры? Как у Джованни оказался билет, и что здесь делает Кампанелла?

Молодой виолончелист Госю без ума от Бетховена, но пока он еще недостаточно хорошо играет, чтобы понравиться своим товарищам. До большого концерта остается десять дней, а он по-прежнему не готов, хотя в поте лица тренируется. И вот, каждый вечер к нему начинают приходить животные, которые помогут Госю научиться играть, слушая свое сердце...

Молодой виолончелист Госю без ума от Бетховена, но пока он еще недостаточно хорошо играет, чтобы понравиться своим товарищам. До большого концерта остается десять дней, а он по-прежнему не готов, хотя в поте лица тренируется. И вот, каждый вечер к нему начинают приходить животные, которые помогут Госю научиться играть, слушая свое сердце...

A Miyazawa Kenji story adapted as a puppet animation from Gakken in 1963

Based on the story by Kenji Miyazawa in which two hunters get lost in the woods and discover a strange restaurant which makes a number of increasingly strenuous demands.

Saburō Takada transfers from a city to a very small school. The village children suspect that Saburō is actually Matasaburō, the wind sprite.

A young prince and a minister's son go on a quest to find the greatest jewel the world has ever seen. An adaptation of Kenji Miyazawa's short story with the same title.