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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 4 months ago

Спасибо большое! Удивительно, красиво, поэтично.
Thank you!
Nat Dart 4 months 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.
Designcollector 4 months ago

Speechless
Nils Eckhardt 4 months 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.
Blake Whitman 4 months ago

what a fantastic concept. very deserving of the awards.
Emir Alp 4 months ago

omg!
D-Nice 4 months ago

Brilliant work.
jeff ducay 4 months ago

Wow!!
Josh Morton 4 months ago

that was absolutely incredible.
Phil Jackson 4 months ago

Very powerful work.
Campbell 4 months ago

I love it.

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Dan Blank 4 months 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!
Idan Gilboa 4 months ago

awesome!
Sunny Thaper 4 months ago

Wow, incredible work! Fantastic execution.
Edwin Oliv@ 4 months ago

nice job ,some day i wanna do some thing like that
MHN Productions 4 months ago

Clever and moving.
Nikio 4 months 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.
adrcc2 3 months ago

really touching.... wow
415764777 3 months ago

哇！
强，
网速有点卡，才看一点点忍不住来恢复几句。
jimmy xu 3 months ago

哈哈，omg
Justin Gedzus 3 months ago

Incredible.
Miguel Monteagudo 3 months ago

! my respects.
Samantha 3 months ago

Amazing work, extremely moving.
David 3 months 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.
Swat Khan 3 months ago

Wow.
Jenny Lee 3 months ago

Very nice work!

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David Hauka 3 months ago

Thank you - exactly what I needed to see. Beautiful.
Jon C. 3 months ago

incredible, Dan. thanks for making my weekend!
heygreyeyes 3 months ago

Thank you very much.
afatiht 3 months ago

çok güzel olmuş.. Japonlar gibi Türklerde bazı acılar çektiler geçmişte.. Ama tarihten ders almamız gerekiyor.. ve ileride dünyayı daha iyi yapmamız gerekiyor..
Eclectic Badger 3 months 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.
PurplePanther 3 months ago

Amazzzing!!
Ivan Galvan 3 months ago

Great work, Dan!
Olia 3 months ago

.......
Thank you.
JMJProductions 3 months ago

Simply amazing...left me speechless. Superb job to all...!!!
Bernardo rubio 3 months ago

Beatiful, great, emotions, sesations, uff...
Nina van den Berg 3 months ago

I'm speechless. Amazing.
Mike Stezycki 3 months ago

What an emotional and tragic story. It was pulled off perfectly, the stop-motion was excellent, as was the shadows. Brilliant piece!
Shabith Ishan 3 months ago

:(
Jerry Serna 3 months ago

This is an excellent work and I can imagine many hours and patience for the final product.
Tim 3 months ago

Amazing!
Tim Barron 3 months 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.
Blake Pusztai 3 months ago

Wow, that stirred up quite a few emotions. Very, very well done.
giulia ester marinari 3 months ago

incredible work!!!
Juan Su 3 months ago

Speechless. Simply wonderful. So full of emotion.
Jamie Isbell 3 months ago

Just wanted to say how beautiful your film is.
Chaja Hogeweg 3 months ago

wauw, beautiful!
The Nintendos 3 months ago

just great!
keehun 3 months ago

Wow, this is truly one of the most amazing films (short and long) I've ever watched.

Really nice job. So beautiful
Yorick 3 months ago

哇哟哟！
ferransky 3 months ago

No tinc paraules !
seaswill 3 months ago

pretty work。
All as victim in WWII,I wish our Chinese guy could make out a film on this topic.
jun101 Junichi Marui 3 months ago

Touched my heart...
Thank you.
ありがとう。

Jun
Nino 3 months ago

I do not like the Japanese soldiers
IanK 3 months 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.
raver 3 months ago

Just, plain, WOW!
Love the concept, the characters and the story. All incredibly moving.
Keep up the good work :)
Froy Jarvio 3 months ago

Hi, I think...the idea is the best...it was created almost perfect...congratulations..
Kimber Scott 2 months ago

I'm overwhelmed. Extremely well done.
Reggaenights 27 days ago

Hey Dan,

I'm on Vimeo too now. :)
emanuel g m 9 days ago

i totally loved this.
congrats man!