Short film

Dragonfly

2023 · 14 min

A quiet, aching short that drifts between a child's bright farmland and the firebombing of a city, leaving a heavy stillness behind.

Directed by: Julia Morizawa
Genres: Animation
Starring: Miya Kodama, Julia Morizawa, Erika Ishii

Overview: Komoro, Japan, 1956. 10-year-old Sumiko chases a red dragonfly through her family’s farm while her mother, Yoshiko, watches from a distance. Tokyo, 1945. Yoshiko, her husband, Susumu, and their baby boy, Kiyoshi, are forced to evacuate their home when hundreds of B-29 bombers drop incendiary bombs on the city, erupting into a massive fire.

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Directed by: Julia Morizawa
Genres: Animation
Starring: Miya Kodama, Julia Morizawa, Erika Ishii

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: war
memory
trauma
family
grief
Places: countryside
big city
home
Era: period
Audience: teen
Form: animated
nonlinear
true story
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	3
Humour	1
Realism	7
Romance	1
Tension	6
Darkness	7
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	8

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