Tribute to Kihachiro Kawamoto, The Great Unknown Giant of Japanese Animation 2005 / Ibarahime Mata Manemurihime / Japan 1990
Everyone knows the canonical fairy tale of the enchanted princess. But probably no one would think of telling it differently - simply, the prince must cut through the briars encaging his love and wake her with a kiss. Kawamoto’s somewhat “sacrilegious” interpretation foregoes many “essential” incidents.
Everyone knows the canonical fairy tale of the enchanted princess. But probably no one would think of telling it differently - simply, the prince must cut through the briars encaging his love and wake her with a kiss. In Kawamoto’s somewhat sacrilegious conception, the prince is somehow absent and Sleeping Beauty never even falls into her proverbial sleep. The director, who shot the film in 1990 at Prague’s Bratři v triku Studio, stripped the story of illusion: in his psychoanalytically inspired interpretation, Sleeping Beauty atones for her mother’s transgression, even willing in doing so to sacrifice her innocence....
22 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Kihachiro Kawamoto
/ Screenplay Kihachiro Kawamoto
/ Dir. of Photography Minoru Tamura, Jan Müler
/ Music Svatopluk Havelka
/ Editor Jan Sládek, Hisako Aizawa
/ Producer Jiří Kubíček
/ Production Kyo Ltd., Kawamoto Productions Ltd., Krátký film Praha, Studio Jiřího Trnky
/ Cast Kyôko Kishida (hlas/voice), Korarová (hlas - česká verze/voice - Czech version)
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