Akai Ito
赤い糸
“Animated film uses red thread to visualize East Asian folklore's "red string of fate" connecting destined soulmates.”
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Synopsis
Animated film uses red thread to visualize East Asian folklore's "red string of fate" connecting destined soulmates.
The film takes a simple idea—creating a picture using a simple thread—and transforms it into an engaging flow of animated images. From East Asian folklore, Okushita takes the symbol of the red string of fate. There are many variations of this ancient tale, but the main idea is that the gods tie men and women together who are destined as each other's soul mates together with a red thread. An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break. -ancient Chinese belief (Source: Nishikata Film Review)
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Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
7.7/10
What 3
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100% recommend
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MixedMostly aligned
σ 1.70 · some divergence
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Score over time
2.33Verbosity
Short · 67%
Medium · 33%
Long · 0%
Snap verdicts · shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7/10 “As Chinese legend tells it, every individual has an invisible red string tied to their pinky that will lead them to a future soulmate. This film places a creative spin on that proverb, using a...”
- 10/10 “According to Eastern legend, destined lovers are bound by a red string of fate -- "Akai Ito" in Japanese. In this animated short, director Kazuhiko Okushita cleverly uses a single red string to...”
- 6/10 “As other people say, this isn't some random string used for the animation. The red string was picked specifically because, based on Eastern culture, a red string is tied around the two people that...”
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A self-contained story.
No sequels, spin-offs or alternate tellings — Akai Ito begins and ends here.
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Reel · 01 Cat. №BS-5477
A Movie Production
in association with Kanazawa College of Art
- Format
- 1 × 4′
- eps × min
- Total runtime
- 0h 04m
- all episodes
- Aired
- Jan 2009 – Jan 2009
- Source
- Movie
- media type
- Rated
- G
- All Ages
- Ref.
- BS-5477
- catalog