Jin Jin and the Panda Patrol

Back in the waring States Period, the King of Qi enjoyed listening to the pipe played by 300 people. Knowing nothing about playing pipe, Mr. Nanguo somehow made his way to the band.

An animated film based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material – the visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. As well as many Japanese animators, Kawamoto assembled leading names in animation from across the world. Each animator was asked to contribute at least 30 seconds to illustrate their stanza, and most of the sequences are under a minute (Yuriy Norshteyn's, though, is nearly two minutes long).

The story of the lonely Emperor and the captivating songbird that comes to live in his palace.