If you loved House of Flames, try Winter Days

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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House of Flames

1979 · dir. Kihachiro Kawamoto

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Winter Days

2003 · dir. Isao Takahata, Yôji Kuri, Kihachiro Kawamoto, Koji Yamamura, Jacques Drouin, Co Hoedeman, Yuri Norstein, Raoul Servais, Shinichi Suzuki, Yuichi Ito, Keita Kurosaka, Mark Baker, Břetislav Pojar, Aleksandr Petrov, Yōichi Kotabe, Reiko Okuyama, Wang Borong, Reiko Yokosuka

What they share

Both films are directed by Kihachiro Kawamoto, and they sit in Animation territory. If that's the register that drew you to House of Flames, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Winter Days is

Snow’s verse meets hand-painted ink. A 1684 linked poem by Bashō splits into 36 animated fragments each helmed by a different auteur. Global collaboration short enough to pause between breaths. The visuals flicker like candlelight.

If you loved House of Flames, try Winter Days

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