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.
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Directed by | Kunio Katō |
Written by | Kenya Hirata |
Produced by | Masanori Kusakabe Yuko Hata |
Music by | Kenji Kondo |
Production company | Oh! Production |
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Running time | 12 minutes |
Country | Japan |
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.
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).
La Maison en Petits Cubes has won the following awards:
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Japan Media Arts Award for Animation of the Year | |
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2011–present |
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