Synopsis

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 Bideocollaboration project between contemporary Japanese literature and animation, is a recitation of Totemo mijikai, an original work by Hideo Furukawa, by the author himself, while Koji Yamamura handled the animation.

Koji Yamamura

Koji Yamamura (1964) graduated from the Tokyo Zokei University. In 2002, his film Mt. Head won grand prizes at six major animation festivals including Annecy and Zagreb and was nominated for the 75th Academy Award. His film Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor (2007) received six grand prizes, and his first feature film Dozens of Norths (2021) won the Grand Prize at the Ottawa and the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. His films have been awarded more than 140 prizes. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and a professor at the Tokyo University of the Arts.