La Maison en Petits Cubes

La Maison en Petits Cubes
La Maison en Petits Cubes
Directed by	Kunio Katō
Written by	Kenya Hirata
Produced by	Masanori Kusakabe ; Yuko Hata
Music by	Kenji Kondo
Production; company	Oh! Production
Release date	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 and animated by Oh! Production.

It won several prizes, including The Annecy Cristal at the 32nd Annecy International Animated Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 81st Academy Awards.^[1] 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 on to his home in order to stay dry. But when he accidentally drops his favourite 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).

Accolades[]

La Maison en Petits Cubes has won the following awards:

2008 Hiroshima International Animation Festival
- Hiroshima Prize^[2]
- Hiroshima Prize^[2]
2008 Japan Media Arts Festival
- Grand Prize – Animation Division^[3]
2008 Annecy International Animated Film Festival
- Junior Jury Award^[1]
- The Annecy Cristal^[1]
2009 Academy Awards
- Best Animated Short Film^[1]
2008 Message to Man
- Best Animated Film^[1]
2008 Anima Mundi
- Best Script – Jury Award^[1]
2008 LA Shorts Fest
- Best Animation^[1]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "La Maison en Petits Cubes". Short Film Central. Archived from the original on August 5, 2017. Retrieved August 4, 2017.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "HIROSHIMA 2008(12) Aug.7-11 Venue : Aster Plaza". HiroAnim.org. Hiroshima International Animation Festival. Retrieved August 4, 2017.
^ "2008 Japan Media Arts Festival Awards". Japan Media Arts Plaza, Agency for Cultural Affairs. Archived from the original on 24 August 2011. Retrieved 1 March 2009.

External links[]

La Maison en Petits Cubes (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
La Maison en Petits Cubes at IMDb

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[short_film-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "La Maison en Petits Cubes". Short Film Central. Archived from the original on August 5, 2017. Retrieved August 4, 2017.

[hiroshima-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b "HIROSHIMA 2008(12) Aug.7-11 Venue : Aster Plaza". HiroAnim.org. Hiroshima International Animation Festival. Retrieved August 4, 2017.

[3] "2008 Japan Media Arts Festival Awards". Japan Media Arts Plaza, Agency for Cultural Affairs. Archived from the original on 24 August 2011. Retrieved 1 March 2009.

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Original video animations	Devilman: The Birth (1987) Devilman: The Demon Bird (1989)
Films	Furiten-kun (1981) Gauche the Cellist (1982) Fair, then Partly Piggy (1988) La Maison en Petits Cubes (2008)
Video games	Tales of Symphonia (2003)

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Submissions for Best Animated Short Academy Award