Yodaka no Hoshi (The Nighthawk Star)

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Synonyms: The Nighthawk's Star

Japanese: よだかの星

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: 2013

Producers: NHK

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Source: Picture book

Genre: Adventure

Demographic: Kids

Duration: 10 min.

Rating: G - All Ages

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Score: 6.43¹ (scored by 1,430 users)

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Ranked: #7438²

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Popularity: #9931

Members: 3,036

Favorites: 6

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Synopsis

The stars in the sky seem to maintain the remote, eternal order which earthbound souls can hardly hope to attain, as it would take exceptional energy to transform oneself from an earthly creature into a brightly shining star. However, the ugly nighthawk who had experienced great hardship being despised by fellow birds managed to convert that hardship into enormous energy to fly up to heaven, and in the end could glow as the nighthawk star.

A short made by Ryu Kato celebrating Kenji Miyazawa's 80+ years of fairy tales based on the story of the same name.

(Source: The World of Kenji Miyazawa)

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Katou, Ryuu

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Miyazawa, Kenji

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Jun 3, 2015

Lemon

Recommended

A very interesting short: beautiful art, great use of colours, and fantastic music.

The story itself was written between the two World Wars and explores the idea of pacifism, sacrifice, and in a way - the Japanese spirit of 我慢. It's written around the same time Ghandi was active but it's not clear if there are subtle references to him specifically or just general Buddist ideals.

In this bitter-sweet story the bullied Nighthawk is taunted by more powerful birds to abandon its identity, but it refuses to do so and resolves to pacifism and chooses to sacrifice itself rather than to inconvenience others/fighting - ...