Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Movie Details:

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Movie Cast & Characters:

• Amaury de Crayencour as Komura (voice)
• Mathilde Auneveux as Kyoko (voice)
• Arnaud Maillard as Katagiri (voice)
• Bruno Paviot as Sasaki (voice)
• Féodor Atkine as M. Suzuki (voice)
• Pierre Földes as Frog (voice)
• Théophile Baquet as Junpei (voice)
• Julien Crampon as Hiroshi (voice)
• Damien Zanoly as Shiraoka (voice)
• Laurent Stocker as Ken (voice)
• Jean-Pierre Malignon as Directeur du restaurant (voice)
• Jean-Pierre Kalfon as Vieil homme (voice)
• Isabelle Vitari as Keiko (voice)
• Géraldine Schitter as Shimao (voice)
• Ingrid Donnadieu as Infirmière (voice)
• Marie-Christine Barrault as Mère de Komura (voice)
• Noée Abita as Jeune fille (voice)
• Ryan Bommarito as Komura (voice)
• Shoshana Wilder as Kyoko (voice)
• Marcelo Arroyo as Katagiri (voice)
• Scott Humphrey as Sasaki (voice)
• Arthur Holden as Mr Suzuki (voice)
• Jesse Noah Gruman as Junpei (voice)
• Michael Czyz as Hiroshi (voice)
• Alex Ivanovici as Shiraoka
• Zag Dorison as Ken (voice)
• John Vamvas as Manager (voice)
• Cora Kim as Keiko (voice)
• Katharine King So as Shimao (voice)
• Nadia Verrucci as Nurse (voice)

Storyline:

A giant talkative frog, a lost cat, and a tsunami help a bank employee, his wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.

About Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Movie:

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (French: Saules aveugles, femme endormie) is an animated anthology drama film written, produced, directed and composed by Pierre Földes. An international co-production of Canada, France, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands

The film, set in Tokyo shortly after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, adapts six short stories from three collections by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, The Elephant Vanishes and After the Quake (including “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman”, “Birthday Girl”, “The Wind-up Bird and Tuesday’s Women”, “UFO in Kushiro”, and “Super-Frog Saves Tokyo”), focusing on a bank employee who a talking frog enlists to assist him in saving the city from destruction by a giant subterranean worm.

To create a version of 3D motion capture animation within a 2D film, Földes filmed his entire screenplay as a live-action “reference” performance, following which the animators replaced the actors’ heads with 3D models and then traced and animated their facial expressions.

The voice cast includes Marcello Arroyo, Michael Czyz, Zag Dorison, Földes, Jesse Noah Gruman, Katharine King So, John Vamvas, Nadia Verrucci, and Shoshana Wilder.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman premiered in the feature film competition at the 2022 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, where it was awarded a Jury Distinction, and was later screened at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival as part of the festival’s Contemporary World Cinema section.

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