Blind Willow Sleeping Woman

BASED ON SHORT STORIES BY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR HARUKI MURAKAMI

“CAPTIVATING AND THOUGHTFULLY WHIMSICAL... the array of interpersonal conflicts floating in the idiosyncratic Blind Willow feel like elegantly animated lucid dreams full of poetic imagery: far from realistic but viscerally truthful.”
– Carlos Aguilar, LOS ANGELES TIMES

“LOVELY, MYSTERIOUS and also at times, fittingly odd.”
– Sheri Linden, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

“FIVE STARS! This new Murakami adaptation...might actually capture the elusive essence of Murakami more than any other.”
– Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN

“Pierre Fo¨ldes’ DELIGHTFUL new animated anthology shows that even the most Murakami-esque source material can be turned into cinema in the right hands. Anyone who is unfamiliar with [Murakami’s] work could watch this movie and leave with a pretty solid understanding of what all the hype is about.”
– Christian Zilko, INDIEWIRE

SYNOPSIS: A giant talking frog and an elusive cat help a listless bank employee, his traumatized wife, and a lonely accountant seek meaning in their lives and possibly save Tokyo from catastrophe in the animated feature Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. Based on stories by acclaimed Japanese author Haruki Murakami (Drive My Car), this feature debut by composer Pierre Földes won the Jury Special Mention award at the renowned Annecy Animation Film Festival and the Grand Prize at the Anima Festival in Brussels.

In Tokyo, not long after the 2011 earthquake, Kyoko suddenly leaves her husband Komura after spending five days glued to the news on TV. Komura takes a week’s leave from work and heads north to deliver a box and its unknown contents to two young women. His colleague Katagiri, a simple debt collector by profession and an awkward loner in life, returns home one evening to find a 7-foot-tall frog asking for his help to save Tokyo from a tsunami. Using an innovative live-action 3D motion capture process, Foldes captures the memories, dreams and visions of these characters as they attempt to rediscover their true selves..

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