12 minutes 33 seconds
Japan
2025

The moment the first gleam of sunlight trickled in gently stirring the folds of a shallow sleep—that was when the graffiti appeared . . . Installment #2 in the “Bungaku Bideo” series fusing Japanese literature and animation, Ryo Orikasa’s hypnotic animated short “The Graffiti” brings to life a prose poem by Makoto Takayanagi, read here by the poet himself.

Director: Ryo Orikasa
Writer: Ryo Orikasa
Producer: Ryo Orikasa