The Tale of the Floating World

You float above tsunami ruins in a dreamlike scroll. A lone ronin rises through the drowned city and then the sky ignites, turning the past into fire. Alain Escalle folds 17th-century ink into 21st-century pixels and leaves you weightless in the aftershock.

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Alain Escalle directed The Tale of the Floating World in 2004. See Alain Escalle's full filmography, where to start with Alain Escalle, or where to go after you've seen everything by Alain Escalle.

The Tale of the Floating World was released in 2004 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 24 minutes.