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Stop-motion film, written, animated, & directed by Dan Blank. Winner of Los Angeles Film Festival (Best Short, 2002), 2002 Student Academy Award (Bronze) & 2003 Student Emmy Award (Gold).

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Produced by Dan Blank & Cynthia Allen
Cast: Jennifer Kato, Takeo Matsushita, Jun Kim, Ako.
Music: Ryan Shore

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  • langustart plus 2 years ago
    Спасибо большое! Удивительно, красиво, поэтично.
    Thank you!
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  • Nat Dart 2 years ago
    Fantastic work Dan, you've really created something awesome here. The mix of stop-motion claymation, 2D animation in the posters, and what looks like composited shadows (?) is all done very professionally. I am also really impressed by the believable emotions of each character, it was totally compelling.
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  • Designcollector ※ plus 2 years ago
    Speechless
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  • Nils Eckhardt 2 years ago
    absolutely A-W-E-S-O-M-E story! the long production time (and the days without any sun, I guess) was really worth it!
    thanks for uploading it here.
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  • Blake Whitman staff 2 years ago
    what a fantastic concept. very deserving of the awards.
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  • Emir Alp 2 years ago
    omg!
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  • D-Nice plus 2 years ago
    Brilliant work.
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  • jeff ducay 2 years ago
    Wow!!
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  • Josh Morton plus 2 years ago
    that was absolutely incredible.
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  • Phillip Jackson 2 years ago
    Very powerful work.
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  • Campbell 2 years ago
    I love it.

    slimspickin.blogspot.com/
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  • Dan Blank plus 2 years ago
    Thanks everyone for your comments! They mean a lot to me, so thank you.

    I'm very grateful Vimeo exists. So much easier to share work when you're not mailing out VHS tapes...

    And Blake, thank you for making it a staff pick! Wow!
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  • Idan Gilboa 2 years ago
    awesome!
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  • Sunny Thaper 2 years ago
    Wow, incredible work! Fantastic execution.
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  • Edkalos 2 years ago
    nice job ,some day i wanna do some thing like that
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  • MHN Productions 2 years ago
    Clever and moving.
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  • Nikio 2 years ago
    Touching! Amazing work, congratulations. I think this should be played at United Nations or G8 meetings... perhaps we'd have a better world then.
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  • adrcc2 2 years ago
    really touching.... wow
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  • 415764777 2 years ago
    哇！
    强，
    网速有点卡，才看一点点忍不住来恢复几句。
  • jimmy xu 2 years ago
    哈哈，omg
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  • Justin Gedzus 2 years ago
    Incredible.
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  • Miguel Monteagudo 2 years ago
    ! my respects.
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  • Samantha 2 years ago
    Amazing work, extremely moving.
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  • Dave 2 years ago
    Very Good work! It brings the sad reality to us who have not experienced such a horrible time as that. Stupid politicians.. They mess everything up.
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  • Swat Khan 2 years ago
    Wow.
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  • Jenny Lee 2 years ago
    Very nice work!

    bountypix.com/
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  • David Hauka 2 years ago
    Thank you - exactly what I needed to see. Beautiful.
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  • heygreyeyes 2 years ago
    Thank you very much.
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  • afatiht 2 years ago
    çok güzel olmuş.. Japonlar gibi Türklerde bazı acılar çektiler geçmişte.. Ama tarihten ders almamız gerekiyor.. ve ileride dünyayı daha iyi yapmamız gerekiyor..
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  • Eclectic Badger 2 years ago
    Incredibly powerful imagery with the innocence of characters. I've not felt this emotional about a wartime post apocalyptic animation since When the Wind Blows.
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  • PurplePanther 2 years ago
    Amazzzing!!
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  • Ivan Galvan 2 years ago
    Great work, Dan!
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  • orangethingie 2 years ago
    .......
    Thank you.
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  • JMJProductions plus 2 years ago
    Simply amazing...left me speechless. Superb job to all...!!!
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  • Bernardo rubio 2 years ago
    Beatiful, great, emotions, sesations, uff...
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  • Nina van den Berg 2 years ago
    I'm speechless. Amazing.
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  • Shabith Ishan 2 years ago
    :(
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  • Jerry Serna 2 years ago
    This is an excellent work and I can imagine many hours and patience for the final product.
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  • Tim 2 years ago
    Amazing!
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  • Tim Barron 2 years ago
    Awsome! When in the Navy, about 1968 we went to Nagasaki, I went to the museum and saw actual sections of fence with shadows on them, freaked me out standing there with a navy uniform on.
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  • Blake Pusztai 2 years ago
    Wow, that stirred up quite a few emotions. Very, very well done.
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  • giulia ester marinari 2 years ago
    incredible work!!!
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  • Juan Su 2 years ago
    Speechless. Simply wonderful. So full of emotion.
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  • Jamie Isbell plus 2 years ago
    Just wanted to say how beautiful your film is.
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  • Chaja Hogeweg 2 years ago
    wauw, beautiful!
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  • The Nintendos 2 years ago
    just great!
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  • keehun 2 years ago
    Wow, this is truly one of the most amazing films (short and long) I've ever watched.

    Really nice job. So beautiful
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  • Yorick 2 years ago
    哇哟哟！
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  • ferransky 2 years ago
    No tinc paraules !
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  • seaswill 2 years ago
    pretty work。
    All as victim in WWII,I wish our Chinese guy could make out a film on this topic.
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  • jun101 Junichi Marui 2 years ago
    Touched my heart...
    Thank you.
    ありがとう。

    Jun
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  • Nino 2 years ago
    I do not like the Japanese soldiers
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  • IanK 2 years ago
    This is an amazing piece of work that shows the horrors of war without preaching about them. Thank you for allowing me to see this.
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  • raver 2 years ago
    Just, plain, WOW!
    Love the concept, the characters and the story. All incredibly moving.
    Keep up the good work :)
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  • Froy Jarvio 2 years ago
    Hi, I think...the idea is the best...it was created almost perfect...congratulations..
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  • Kimber Scott 2 years ago
    I'm overwhelmed. Extremely well done.
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  • Régis Camargo 2 years ago
    Hey Dan,

    I'm on Vimeo too now. :)
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  • Emanuel Gómez Miranda 2 years ago
    i totally loved this.
    congrats man!
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  • Ghostwriter 1 year ago
    moving
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  • kaelyn schreiber 1 year ago
    such an amazing idea. i cried nearly the whole time.
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  • Charles Pieper plus 1 year ago
    Incredibly powerful and well done. Wow. I do stop motion (mainly music videos), so I know how much time and effort goes into making them...So to make such a detailed and long 15 minute animation, well...woof. Epic for sure and completely deserving of such awards!
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  • happy face 9 months ago
    Really moving.
    Great concept, even for a Japanese like me. Somehow the words on the posters were a bit strange, probably straight translations from a English line, but still it stays a great piece of art.
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  • Chenano 7 months ago
    Un trabajo muy bien desarrollado, logra hacernos emocionar y colocarnos en el lugar de quienes sufrieron el horror de la guerra, familias inocentes, niños y niñas desamparados ...
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