Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor

| Original title: Kafuka Inakaisya | French title: Un médecin de campagne de Franz Kafka | Simplified Chinese title: 卡夫卡乡村医生 |
| Short animation | 2007 | Japan | 21'00" | HD cam, 35mm, HD, DCP | 16:9, Vista(1:1.85) | Dolby Digital 5.1ch, Stereo | Japanese, English subtitles | Information | Dialogue | Stills |
|  Trailer |  Makig video | U-NEXT | DMM TV | Lemino |

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ORIGINAL STORY Franz Kafka “Ein Landarzt”
SCRIPT, STORY BOARD, CAMERA & EDITOR Koji Yamamura
MUSIC Hitomi Shimizu(SYZYGYS) / SOUND DESIGN Koji Kasamatsu
DIRECTED BY Koji Yamamura
Voices: DOCTOR Sensaku Shigeyam, DOCTOR'S VOICE 1 Shigeru Shigeyama/DOCTOR'S VOICE 2 Doji Shigeyama, PACKHORSE DRIVER Shime Shigeyama, ROSA Hitomi Kanehara, BOY Ippei Shigeyama
CO PRODUCTION Yamamura Animation, Inc.
PRODUCTION, SALES & DISTRIBUTION Shochiku Co., Ltd.



The Lying thick snow at a cold night, the humble doctor got a news of emergency arrives. It all starts. mercy of strange village people and paranoia family obsessed a doctor thrown under the wintry sky. Theater of the absurd that was in the original short stories of literary Kafka of the Czech Republic.

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Review, article (6):

Like looking at the mind through a convex lens...
Koji Yamamura, who has produced “Mt. Head” and “The Old Crocodile” and other absurdist dramas in his own unique animated works, has taken on the challenge of Kafka, the very heart of absurdity. He reveals the psychology of a character that no one else in the world has attempted before through the convex lens of animation. (Kihachiro Kawamoto, animation artist, 2007)

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In our minds, various things become larger or smaller, frightening or funny, when we read excellent fantasy stories. Koji Yamamura's works show us that animation can do so many things, but we have only seen a part of it. What a dense mixture of humor and horror, beauty and grotesqueness, profundity and lightness, in 20 minutes! (Motoyuki Shibata, Professor and Translator, University of Tokyo, 2007)

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Joy, fun, and laughter do not always occupy our lives. Hardship, duty, harsh reality, and sadness await. How can we find the path that will not break us down and walk on it when there is nothing we can do? Kafka must have known this on the cobblestones of Prague. When facing life, frozen hands connect with frozen hands. Hands that connect. Director Yamamura's images convey the body warmth born there. (Hatsuei Kajiwara, Editor-in-Chief of Czech information magazine CUKR (Tukkur) 2007)

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Yurameki, Furueru sekai [Nobuaki Doi Animations creators & critics ASIFA Magazine 2007]

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"Komik des passiven Körpers: Kôji Yamamura Animationsfilm Kafka - Ein Landarzt (2007)" [Kentaro Kawashima, Körperinszenierungen im japanischen Film2016]

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Metamorphosis as Origin–Koji Yamamura’s Short Animation Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor [Kentaro Kawashima 2019]

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