2016 / Short / stop-motion

The Forest This Flower Blooms

Name: The Forest This Flower Blooms
Released: 2016

木ノ花ノ咲クヤ森

Japan

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Techniquestop-motion

Overview

11m, directed by Tomoyasu Murata. Original title 木ノ花ノ咲クヤ森. an amnesiac wolf flees hunters through a moonlit landscape. First part of Murata's five-part series on memories of life and death made after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake (the 2017 part, A Branch of a Pine Is Tied Up, is TMDB-tagged stop-motion). also used for Galileo Galilei's 'Circle Game' music video. Production company not yet sourced. Added from the Tomoyasu Murata chain (TMDB person 1205560).

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Cast and crew credited on The Forest This Flower Blooms
Person	Role	Department	Source
Tomoyasu Murata	director	direction	TMDB source themoviedb.org medium confidence Details Daily enrichment 2026-10-10. (TMDB-sourced).

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