# Spring and Chaos (1996)

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**Original title**: *イーハトーブ幻想 Kenjiの春*
**Runtime**: 56 min
**Genres**: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
**Directed by**: Shoji Kawamori
**Written by**: Shoji Kawamori
**Starring**: Shiro Sano, Mariko Kouda, Chikao Ohtsuka, Keiichi Fujimura, Hiroshi Isobe, Victor Chin

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, outsider, slow-burn

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