MONSTRA | Festival de Animação de Lisboa

Human Zoo

Yoji Kuri

Human Zoo

JAPAN 1962 3' técnica mista

I asked the composer T?ru Takemitsu, “Do you have something I could use?” He handed me a tape and said, “Maybe this will do.” When I listened to it, it was just groaning sounds—“ahh” and “uhh.” Around that time, there was a shop nearby that kept monkeys and chickens, and I could hear their cries while working. That gave me an idea: what if I put humans inside a zoo and added Takemitsu’s music? And wouldn’t it be interesting if, inside the cage, a woman defeated a man?

Technical Sheet
Director Yoji Kuri Script Animation YOJI KURI Music Toru Takemitsu  Sound Music: Tōru Takemitsu Poem: Shuntarō Tanikawa Voice: Hiroshi Mizushima, Kyōko Kishida Production 1961 Distribution

16 March | CINEMATECA PORTUGUESA - Sala Luís de Pina | 19:30

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