Extremely Short
Bungaku Bideo 1
| Original title:
とても短い (Totemo mijikai) | French title: EXTRÊMEMENT COURT | Simplified Chinese title: 很短, 很短 | Spanish title: Extremadamente corto |
| Short animation | April 2024 | Japan, US | 5'18" | 4K | 1:1.85 |
Trailer |
Teaser |
Bungaku Bideo |
Yanai Initiative |
Text & Voice FURUKAWA HIDEO
Music ISAJI SUNAO
Direction & Animation YAMAMURA KOJI
Based on the Short Story "Totemo mijikai" (2010) by FURUKAWA HIDEO
Planning & English Translation MICHAEL EMMERICH
Producer YAMAMURA KOJI, Assistant Producers YAMAMURA SANAE
Co-Production Yamamura Animation
Project Manager, The Yanai Initiative JOKO YUMI, YAMAZAKI SANAE
Production THE YANAI INITIATIVE at UCLA + Waseda University
Voice Recording ERIC SIERCKS, Waseda International House of Literature
Music Performance ISAJI SUNAO, NIIMI KEIKO
Music Mixing ISOBE HIDEAKI
Sound Mixing SHIMADA MASASHI, Aoi Studio
Color Grading & DCP Lab Assist
A man who was looking for the shortest thing in Tokyo uttered the word "da" at the last moment of his life.
This work, produced as the first installment of the ``Bungaku Bideo'' collaboration project between contemporary Japanese literature and animation, is a recitation of "Totemo mijikai," an original work by Hideo Furukawa, by the author himself, and Koji Yamamura handled the animation.
Official Selection (11):
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56th Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes, France, 2024.05: World premiere
48th World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb 2024, Croatia, 2024.06, TIME FOR THE MASTERS
18th Short Stop International Film Festival, Romania, 2024.06, Best Animation Nominee
17th International Animated Film Festival ANIMATOR, Poland, 2024.06
16th International Short Film Festival Psarokokalo, Greece, 2024.07
12th Insomnia International Open-Air Animation Film Festival, Russia, 2024.07
28th Fantasia International Film Festival, Canada, 2024.07-08
77th Edinburgh International Film Festival, UK, 2024.08
23rd Countryside Animafest Cyprus, Cyprus, 2024.08
22rd Imaginaria International Animated Film Festival, Italy, 2024.08
20th World Festival of Animated Film Varna, Bulgaria, 2024.09
Screenings (9):
Quinzaine des Cinéastes 2024, Festival Scope, France, 2024.05.30-06.06
Quinzaine des Cinéastes 2024, Les Carmes, Orléans, France, 2024.06.05
a Quinzaine en salle. Sélection Quinzaine: Courts métrages #1, Forum des images, Paris, France, 2024.06.08
Festival Quinzaine en salle: Programme court-métrages 1, Comoedia, Lyon, France, 2024.06.08
Eprise de la Quinzaine des Cinéastes Programme de Cinq Court métrages, Utopia, Avignon, France, 2024.06.13
Eprise de la Quinzaine des Cinéastes Programme de Cinq Court métrages, Utopia, Bordeaux, France, 2024.06.13
Quinzaine des Cinéastes 2024: Programme court-métrages 1, Dulac Cinémas, Paris, France, 2024.06.13
Yanai Initiative Commemorative Screening & Talk Event-”Extremely Short”, Japan, 2024.07.25
2nd Hiroshima Animation Season 2024, Japan, 2024.08
Review (1):
...Extremely short indeed, since this animated vignette lasts just 5 minutes, including the credits. Yet it's the whole of existence that bubbles up in this jolt that's both primitive and surreal. Japan's Kōji Yamamura has created an astonishing film whose tension is as insane as it is existential.
Festival de Cannes 2024 : nos 10 courts métrages préférés | Le Polyester | Gregory Coutaut | 024.05.25 | France
Articles / Interviews (8):
Fukushima Minyu Shimbun; Minyu Net »Selected for Cannes Film Festival Directors Fortnight Original animation by Mr. Furukawa (Koriyama native), 2024.04.19
Shizuoka Shimbun »3 Japanese films to be selected for Cannes “Directors’ Fortnight”, 2024
UCAL »Film commissioned by UCLA professor earns spot at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, by Sean Brenner, UCAL, 2024.05.07
Animation Magazine »Transpacific Animation Effort ‘Extremely Short’ Makes World Premiere at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, 2024.05.10
Kyodo Cannes Film Festival opens; director Coppola and others compete for top prize,
»Toyama Shimbun/
»Okinawa Times, 2024.05.14
Yomiuri Shimbun »Cannes Film Festival, the newspaper's reporter reports on the 12 days full of topics... Competition section focuses on Coppola's work, Culture Department Matsuda Takuya, 2024.05.14
Yomiuri Shimbun A big battle of the big films, a controversial film by a master is controversial... Who will win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival? "Very Short,"
»a new film by Koji Yamamura, 2024.05.26
Le Polyester »Festival de Cannes | Entretien avec Kōji Yamamura, 2024.05.26