Made by French animator Pierre Földes, “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” will be a compilation of different narratives that aims to bring Murakami’s mixture of mundanity and surrealism through animation. The premise is as follows: “A lost cat, a voluble giant toad, and a tsunami help an unambitious and schizophrenic accountant and his frustrated wife to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find meaning in their lives.
“It was only later, while I was reworking my script, that I began to interpret characters from different short stories as multiple facets of the same characters, at different points in their lives,” Földes. “I like to think of my life so far as a series of short stories. And thus, little by little, the idea came to me to merge the stories and characters, and combine them in a shared chronology.”” is set to be finished by early 2022. As for its cinematic release date, we would have to wait for a little while.