Kafka's A Country Doctor 1/3

[roudou6gou]

不安定になるけど、それがいい

「自分の家になにがしまってあるか、分からないものですわねェ」

「ぶわっはっはっはっはっ」

[Aicirt8]

Whoa, talk about psychological. Very creepy so far.

[masterblaster301]

この国もロープにつまずいてしまったようだよ、カフカ君。

[spiltteethy]

When I play this, all the roaches scuttle from out the walls of my apt to watch it with me. We sing and fill out tax forms burning the moon for light.

[4042516]

dont watch this if drunk or under medication

[ShopiStar]

This is the proof that Japanese Animation is a lot more than just Anime

[AdrianHiitman]

Whoah! He made a lot of distortions.

[Doggiecutes]

At 6:00... The moon looks like a skull.

[Jaluzaga]

Holy shit!

[misssilvya]

KOJI YAMAMURA!!!!!!!

[doanjoey]

It's made in Japan, but the animation looks Russian

[7sickman]

massacre and profanation! NO! NO! NO!

[tompouceful]

Thanks, thanks again, this is image love.

[detectiveyoshi]

wtf this is so good, thanks for posting this! I wish that there was more anime like this.

[colourcoded25]

great animation- like looking through a microscope.

[highlender45]

This is not the way I imagined it illistrated at all.

[subsamadhi]

they actually have the story down pretty precisely. I can remember it in detail myself. They get most of it in here. But you have to remember these are Japanese animators so it would look different with another group of animators. God bless them for doing it anyhow.

[Beauxdeauxfinglok]

This is absolutely brilliant. Incredible work!

[Myouqa]

this is a masterpiece.

[willberain]

the play with perspective is another key for Kafka's visualization, wonderful

[theroachksu]

I've never liked anime, but this style perfectly captures the unsettling mood of the story. And yes, the vacillating perspective is incredibly appropriate.

[fumpsee]

i just read the story in my english class at college and the professor actually used this video along with his lecture to help with the understanding.

[wildhias]

im normally not an anime fan - but this is the shit - totally new perspectives - great stuff

[NympheaNoir]

Koji Yamamura is such a badass animator. Composition, timing, everything is just ingenious. Thank you for uploading!

[DerowEgen]

Großartige Umsetzung einer großartigen Vorlage!

[InneHaine]

Strange animation, strange perspectives...

I like this!

[mngarrison]

It is kind of mind blowing watching it frame by frame, all shot in 1's!

[subsamadhi]

this is one of kafka's best stories. it blows my mind that someone else got a hold of it and actually did something with it like this.

[subsamadhi]

Yeah, I really dug it when I first read it. It made me realize what a powerful author Kafka was. Disturbing yet subtle at the same time. Aweseome.

[pavoman23]

@subsamadhi What subtleties are you referring to? That is a rather vague assertion...

[subsamadhi]

@pavoman23 The story is really creepy and has an aura of death and malice. But if you actually watch and/or read it, it's not like a slasher flick with over-the-top violence. Kafka in his more macabre works still maintained a level of restraint.

[pavoman23]

@subsamadhi I've read Kafka and you've yet to assert any of the subleties or actually point to the manner in which Kafka uses death. Besides, the ending is meant to imply the fear of the infinite, there isn't any realistic treatment of death, so I don't know where "slasher film" is coming from -- Kafka wouldn't have even known about slasher films they weren't around! You'd have bee better off considering the deconstruction of heurmanutic systems when facing the meaning of life and death.

[subsamadhi]

@pavoman23 If you've actually read Kafka, then why do you even need to get examples of how he uses death? The theme is throughout his books. My point is that his stories (as well as other authors such as Poe) use death in a way that isn't as graphic as todays' movie audiences are used to, for example. Shit, I could go on like this all day but this isn't even really a forum for long discussions.

[pavoman23]

@subsamadhi Not examples of how HE uses death, examples of how YOU perceive his use of death. And further why your dichotomy of graphic versus non graphic death is important in understanding Kafka at all. I've read Kafka and don't purport to understand him fully his deconstruction of symbolic meaning and transcendent truths are beguiling, what I take difficulty with is your simplification of Kafka it detracts from the conversation on Kafka as a whole.

[subsamadhi]

@pavoman23 he uses death in a way to show how cheap life is compared to human beaurocracy. Many of his stories are about this. The Trial, Metamorphosis, etc. This story is similar in scope. The doctor leaves his assistant girl to suffer at the hands of the mysterious man who "helps" him. He can't even really help the kid with the worms in his leg. Those are just off the top of my head.

[pavoman23]

@subsamadhi Where is the human bureaucracy in the Country Doctor??? You're almost there focus on the repetition of ROSE (boy's flower and the assistants name - but who is being deflowered?) and you'll be closer to realizing what the focus on death is actually conveying. It has nothing to do with your supposed cheapness of life, even Marxist critics wouldn't make such a banal vague statement.

[subsamadhi]

@pavoman23 Jesus man, this isn't the forum for this kind of crap. Youtube isn't made for literary discussions. If you want this kind of exchange this isn't the place for it at all. I could get a thousand different responses from different people with my own interpretations.

[ayitspnayo]

@pavoman23 you're so damn annoying, who cares if subsamadhi makes a vague comment? it's how he interprets kafka

[BlazingPhoenix92]

anyone have the English subtitle file?

[bleriot100]

This calls for repeated viewings the way Kafka's story itself calls for repeated readings. Faithful to the original, yet a little masterpiece in its own right.

[1337Einstein]

Checks insane-o-meter...the needle shoots to the maximum value, shortly before shifting perpendicular to its proper orientation. Yup, this is Kafka alright.

[DerowEgen]

If this is all you have to say youd better keep your hands off Kafka

[sarcasmosis]

This is mind-blowing. Absolutely amazing.

[SycrosD4]

Thanks so much for this!

[wholewheattoastt]

this is some crazy shit man.

[cvetko11]

thank you very much for uploading this!

[Excalibong]

this short is awesome.