Spring and Chaos

Kenji Miyazawa biopic meets Studio Ghibli’s quiet fury. A starving artist in early 1900s Japan scrapes by on poetry and failed crops while the world notices nothing. Miyazawa’s brief life glows like a candle in a gale.

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Shoji Kawamori directed Spring and Chaos in 1996. See Shoji Kawamori's full filmography, where to start with Shoji Kawamori, or where to go after you've seen everything by Shoji Kawamori.

Spring and Chaos was released in 1996 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 56 minutes.