In love with the bronze statue of a young girl, a liitle boy never fails to stop by and wipe clean the graceful figure with his handkerchief. Time passes and the boy soon grows old. The bronze however…

Message from the director

This is the first film I made as an animation student.
Because I moved out to a different city, for 10 years I couldn’t visit the playground of my childhood . When I finally did, this place, which used to be near a waste recycling factory built on reclaimed land, had become a nice public park. However I couldn’t help but feel sad at the change and resigned myself to a “That’s life!”. I decided to make a story out of this sensation. At that time, I saw the French film “Children of Paradise”. The instant I saw the character of Baptiste fall in love with the statue of a woman, my story was complete.

Awards

Shizuoka Digital Contents 2008 – Award winner
5th Nico Nico International Film Festival – Award winner
Short Fillm Festa Nippon (under 29 category) – Finalist

Animation: Kenichi Kuraoka
Music: Yuta Saito

Kenichi Kuraoka
Born 1988 in Yamagata prefecture (Japan).
Finished high-school in Ibaraki prefecture and then entered Tokyo Polytechnic Univeristy.

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