La Maison en Petits Cubes

La Maison en Petits Cubes

Directed by	Kunio Katō
Produced by	Masanori Kusakabe, Yuko Hata
Written by	Kenya Hirata
Narrated by	Masami Nagasawa
Music by	Kenji Kondo
Production company	Robot Communications
Release dates	2008 (2008)
Running time	12 minutes
Country	Japan

La Maison en Petits Cubes (つみきのいえ, Tsumiki no Ie, "The House of Small Cubes") is a 2008 Japanese animated short subject film created by Kunio Katō, with music by Kenji Kondo and produced by Robot Communications. It won several prizes, the most important being the Grand prize for short films (the Annecy Cristal) at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 2008^[1] and the 2008 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.^[2] It was also included in the Animation Show of Shows in 2008 .

Plot

As his town is flooded by water, an aged widower is forced to add additional levels onto his home in order to stay dry. But when he accidentally drops his favorite smoking pipe into the lower submerged levels of his home, his search for the pipe eventually makes him relive scenes from his eventful life (including his time before the flooding began).

Awards

2008 Hiroshima Prize and Audience Prize Hiroshima International Animation Festival^[3]
2008 Grand Prize Animation Division Japan Media Arts Festival^[4]
2008 Grand prize for short films (the Annecy Cristal)
2008 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film (the second anime film to win after Spirited Away and the first for short film)

References

External links

La Maison en Petits Cubes (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
La maison en petits cubes at the Internet Movie Database

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

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