“Stylized biographical film of poet Kenji Miyazawa using animal characters and his fictional land Ihatov.”
Spring and Chaos
イーハトーブ幻想 Kenjiの春
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Synopsis
Stylized biographical film of poet Kenji Miyazawa using animal characters and his fictional land Ihatov.
A unique biographical sketch of the life of the great modern Japanese poet Kenji Miyazawa, Spring and Chaos is a highly stylized and intense film that draws on Miyazawa's writing techniques to tell his life story. Miyazawa often used animals as the main characters in his stories and poems, and it is this technique that allows director Shoji Kawamori to recreate Miyazawa's fanciful land of Ihatov and use it as the backdrop for Miyazawa's life. Beautiful and affecting, Spring and Chaos is a fitting tribute to one of Japan's greatest writers. (Source: Rotten Tomatoes)
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What 3 viewers settled on.
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σ 0.94 · scores cluster tight
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↑ 0.67
Running avg · Jul 2010 → May 2016
- 8 “A truly unique and enjoyable anime.It tells the story of rich businessman son: Kenji Miyazawa who tries to find deeper meaning to life and his place among society. As the son of a rich businessman...”
- 8 “I came across this movie whilst searching around and I needed something to watch so I thought I'd give it a try. It's not very long, barely and hour but for such a short movie that would seem to be...”
- 10 “How do you make a fitting tribute to a great person? Well, this is how. It's *exactly* how it needed to be in this case: poetic and extremely heartfelt. Spring and Chaos is a short parable on Kenji...”
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A Movie Production
Group TAC.- Format 1 × 56′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 56m all episodes
- Aired Dec 1996 – ongoing
- Source Movie media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-1100 catalog
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- Tokyopop Licensor