The Grateful Crane
つるのおんがえし
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A puppet animation movie by Kazuhiko Watanabe.
Release Date
1965-01-01
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I try to set this work – a film using texts, or a film-book – between watching and reading. This film is dedicated to J.L. Borges, a great artist, who had translated The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde at his early childhood, became one of the greatest writers of the 20th century and continued to publish the works by dictation even after losing his eyesight.
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