BLIND WILLOW, SLEEPING WOMAN

SAULES AVEUGLES, FEMME ENDORMIE

By Pierre FÖLDES

THE MATCH FACTORY - as SALES

Animation - Completed 2022

In this animated adaptation of several stories by Haruki Murakami, a lost cat, a giant talking frog, and a tsunami help a bank employee, his frustrated wife, and an anxious accountant find meaning in their lives — and possibly save Tokyo from catastrophe.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2022
Contemporary World Cinema
Busan IFF 2022
World Cinema
Les Arcs Film Festival 2022
Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Animation
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, CANADA, NETHERLANDS, LUXEMBOURG
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 112 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Pierre FÖLDES
    • Synopsis
    • Tokyo, a few days after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Kyoko suddenly leaves her husband after spending five days in a row glued to unfolding earthquake footage on TV. Her helpless husband Komura takes a week’s leave from work and heads north to deliver a box and its unknown contents to two young women. His colleague Katagiri, a simple debt collector by profession and an awkward loner in life, returns home one evening to find a two-metre-tall frog asking for his help to save Tokyo from an imminent earthquake. Through memories, dreams and fantasies, Kyoko, Komura and Katagiri, influenced by their visions of earthquakes – which are manifested as evil willow trees, giant earthworms, secret vows, mysterious boxes and a dark, endless corridor –, attempt to rediscover their true selves.