Tsumiki no Ie (The House of Small Cubes)
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2014
- The House of Small Cubes is a japanese animation short film created by Kunio Katō in 2008. Won the Oscar award for best animated short in 2009.
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All credits go to respective creator "Kunio Katō". - Zábava
Don’t forget to live your levels up the first time. Enjoy them. The problems fade. The good memories last forever. Cherish them as your making them.
I don’t want memories to last, I want to live them.
Perseverance. In all situations. If only we could all be so safe as a cartoon. 😢😢 I sent so.
A great reminder. Thank u.
Wow. I actually understand it. I believe each “cube” represents stages of life and the water continuously rising represents time. Beautiful metaphor.
and the size being influenced by how happy he is
@@brick3827 not really because the first house is a small one
@Nilmani Basumatary the size represents how full his life is with things that make him happy. It gets larger as he has children before becoming smaller when they leave. Then as his wife dies it becomes smaller again. And slowly as time goes on his life becomes more empty and lonely, so the house gets smaller.
Edit: I mean child, not children. Apologies, I had a moment, it was late.
@@bertiec1593
No, it doesn't. It gets smaller even while his daughter - he had one child, not children - grows up.
Go and rewrite your own story, not this Oscar winning one.
Mark Cynic I think you’ll find that when his daughter is born it gets a lot bigger. The first level is very small. The second level, that we see his daughter as a baby in, is much bigger.
I watched this on Netflix last night. It is so sweet and sad...
Judi Davidson same
same here
Judi Davidson
sameee
Ilicow what was the ending
I watched this like 15 minutes ago and it’s so sad and sweet and so beautiful. Cried like a little baby
12 minutes...felt like an hour, a wonderful amazing sad hour.
Memories down to childhood, love, affection, separation, priorities, family etc and finally we are all alone in this world. Hoping that at least for a minute whom we have lost, will meet them..
So true!
When my future wife dies I die with her but I'll go out on a vicodin overdose Cuz I wanna die peacefully
No matter how many times I watch this, I always tear up
Me too😢
Me toooo
😭
Me too😢
This is so good
10:02 is absolutely devastating.
What an incredible short film.
Didn’t think I’d see you here tbh.
And no one else has even said anything.
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I'm not crying you're crying
😢
As a person who is an absolute SUCKER for these kinds of somber films, as in, i allmost allways roll on the floor and cry in to a bucket over how oppressive the atmosphere usually is in these types of movies.
This 12 minute thing tho i think hits SUCH an astounding resonance with me though. 3 minutes in i already just could NOT handle how well the movie was hitting me. The art style and vibe hit me so hard that i was ready to just burst in tears in its 1st couple of moments. The overwhelming feeling of somber loneliness is a thing that also tore me emotionally apart, it is simply impossible not to feel symphatethic towards the old man.
However, i think the animation and subtlety is this pieces greatest strength. Being able to convey emotion and messages through simple visual cues and facial expressions. It is truly a lost art in any cinematic piece of media. Not to mention the somber music playing over it, setting the tone all on its own.
Its metaphors and journey of both the effects of time and the continued life of a man whose life is seemingly meaningless, as he is lonely, and living under constant need to build new floors to keep living, and seemingly eats the same meals each day, spending his time reminiscing on his past. It truly hits a note within the human psyche wherein you wonder "what would i do if i ended up this way?". And truly, what would you? Might i remind you of that it does all of this, in 12 minutes
12 minutes
12 FREAKING MINUTES
T W E L V E.
Kunio, you're a genius.
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This movie made me cry a lot :( I just made a review on my channel.
👏👏👏 great review
its not oppressive its rmore peaceful quiet a bit lonesome but beautiful.
I KNOW! I’ve watched this like 5 times and I cry every time.
Why can’t beautiful sad short films be more mainstream?
At the same time I’m glad it’s niche because I feel like it retains its specialness, its uniqueness.
I am a cold and heartless monster who rarely ever cries at sad things.
This had me bawling buckets for pretty much the whole latter two-thirds.
That's me, I've done almost all of the internet ones no problem, but when my friends said I should watch this I thought it'd be easy. But this fucking thing had me balling, and that's why I love it.
Then you're probably not a cold and heartless monster.
So it seems.
It's OK sometimes if your watching
A sad film and it doesn't make you cry I watched watership down and that didn't make me cry But not that I don't have no heart
That mean you human
His house gets smaller and smaller😢
one there'll be no place for him to build up to and his house will sum to the water like many others did. His time will have ended and it will be now time for him to go
I come back to watch this every year and I still can't watch it without shedding a tear. Do you guys ever think "what if that was me?" I do. I don't think I'd have the strength to keep going and eventually, well, you know the rest. Loneliness is one of my greatest fears. When I know for sure that no one is coming for me or that those I held dear are gone forever. That scares me. I couldn't handle this. I could never handle this.
My Friend, I feel you. I feel the same. I wish to be friends with you.
Some people are alone all their life...
What a grand deep beautiful creation here! I’m 73 and at his stage of caring for an ailing wife who has been my magnificent partner on these journeys for 50 years. I find myself frozen in fear about what will happen in our future… rather soon. I’m terrified. But also trying to soak up the tiny happiness moments we still have together, and I constantly drift back to all those wonderful memories…together.
this was made years ago I've shown this to many self centered people.
None of them were left unmoved no joke this is powerful work
Watched this film a few years ago with my wife and young son...before her diagnosis...she's gone now, and he probably doesn't remember the film at all...I'd love to share it with him at some point but not sure if I'm ready to watch the whole thing by myself even, let alone in front of him...
The part that knocked me over skimming it just now was when they're laying up the bricks together...I know it's a metaphor; but when we bought our house, the first thing we did together was take down the brick chimney and replace it with a skylight and light shaft...and by we, I mean her and I, together, on the roof, by hand, brick by brick...(with help from friends)...the goal was always to fix up this place and then keep on going...together...lift it, or add on, or design and build another structure on our property...never even got the first job done.
Like Michael Solano said down below: live fully the first time. There's no way to know how many levels we're going to get.
A smoke and a couple of glasses of wine: not the worst of endings!
This... this is awesome... give the creators awards... many awards...
Mr. Fish the frog they did
It won an academy award in short animated feature category.
Same thing happened with me, my birthplace, my kids home, I always looked around in my dream
When you reach to this point all what you do is waiting the death and this is hurting so much ..
this is a prefect example of animated story telling
best animated short ever!
Yeah, time marches on... life is so short. And all we are is dust in the wind... ✌️☺️
My head-canon is that the old man got on a boat and paddled away to go live out his days with his daughter and her family as the grandpa.
My kind of story.... This guy just travelled back in time , i prefer memories over present.. i know how painful it is
I read some comments while waiting for this to load and I thought I was warned enough with the tears. Oh, how I thought. I haven't cried this hard in a while. This short film is amazing; I won't spoil it but it's absolutely a masterpiece.
I saw this on netflix and fell in love. Simple yet extrordinary drawings and a short yet meaningfull story. Although there was no words spoken it felt like the dialog was truly there.
This is a masterpiece.
I watched this video in 2009, and today is 2021.
Every year the theatre where I worked had a programme of Oscar nominated shorts (documentary, live-action, and abimation). I was only ever interested in the animation. Some years were better than others. Two shorts that stuck out was this one and the World of Tomorrow. Both have a melancholic tone that captured my imagination. It's such a simple and beautiful premise that could be interpreted many ways or enjoyed on its surface as a story of some cataclysmic event which caused sea levels to rise, the character descending into each level of his ever expanding home and seeing the memories each evokes. It can certainly be seen for its environmental perspective. It is quite remarkable.
whoever disliked this video does not have a heart
the feelings bro, /cry
Whomever disliked this video is likely under the age of 12
They were just holding their phone upside down
i cried with this :(
I pray someday I am lucky enough to have lived a life where I can be in his place looking back on all the love I’ve had in my life!
my multimedia teacher played this in class for our animation unit; the one time im glad we were quarantined & doing online school because i was crying fat tears by the end of this, lol.
Same😢
every time I watch it I cry and smile that's is the real meaning of life
Now I'm in tears...
Poor man, I wish his only daughter at least would visit him.
This short film justifies the phrase "going deep down the memory lane."
it's been 9 years since i watched this. The fast land of submerged water and what's left is the depiction about part of your memories that's still exist since your childhood.
I'm not crying, you're crying. And I'm crying because you're crying. Stop crying already, dammit!
I first felt Emptiness,
Taking its place was Sadness
And a Loneliness
But then came Hope
And the warmth of Joy
And its Bliss that followed
But before I could take it all in,
They faded back into the distant memory
Yet now in the place of Emptiness
And Sadness
And the Loneliness
Fulfilment was kindled
This video was a rollercoaster of emotions, still gives me this feeling since I first saw it 6 years ago in school
Even though I used up more of my phone's data
I regret nothing
2008 = The House of Small Cubes
2020 = Coronavirus
I am not a sentimental person. Some even call me sociopathic. But this...this twelve minute, wordless film, made me cry. Sob almost. If beauty and art had a representing film, this would be it. In my opinion.
Thank you for listening, friend.
This truly is a masterpiece. As one comment has mentioned that it is impossible to not feel sympathetic towards the old man, I could not agree more. However, my emotions and feelings do not stop with just that. I am not sure what Kunio had in mind when he created this masterpiece. Was it his fear that people will not be together forever? Was it that at the end you just have your spouse to be with and that your children will have their life of their own? Was it that old people lament things and that the memories will push them forward in living? Or was it climate change? This without a doubt is a film about an old man living alone with the memories of the past. But the flooding. Is it wrong to say that the movie would be less painful if he was in the same land where he grew up- with green trees, with the earth beneath the feet? The flooding just keeps on growing. Isn't this what climate change will look like? Some places flooded, some burnt, more lands too dry to grow anything on. And in the end, there will be more people regretting than there are people who deny climate change. I am not sure if I expressed my frustration well, neither am I confident that I conveyed what I had to say in these lines. But if you're reading this comment, I would like it if you become more environmentally conscious. And if you already are, I am glad that there are people like you. Thankyou Kunio Katō.
when i watched this for first time i was 9 now i am 16 it's still awesome
@The_Complex It said 2008 at the end, and stated it won an award in 2009.
She was born in 2000, I'm thinking, cool year to be born. Relatives find it easy to remember how old you are this year! 😉
I can't cry to this video even through I understand the thoughtful metaphor of life that this anime offers. Years of suffering made me lose my sense of empathy or is it because I have yet to form a close bond with someone? I think that I'll just stick with the fact that I'm still young and didn't experience life to the fullest like this lonely old man did :[
@@heathermontgomery8502 im also 2000
@@NoveskeYT same bro
I finally remembered what this was called thank GOD
So sweet. So true. As a Pipe Smoker, I'd probably do the same, and experience the same. He will love to find them all in eternity.
So many tears! I just want to show this with everyone! 💙💙
Always brings a tear to my eyes specially when he toasts the wine glass
the best part is it doesn't use words and we understand every single word the story wants to tell us
Когда то давно, я видел этот мульт, и сейчас я смог его заново отыскать, только благодаря Chatgpt. Он ориентировался по моей памяти, и смог отыскать этот мульт...Эмоции этот мульт вызывает все те же, тоску по прошлому, грусть и прочее
It was a mistake trying to watch this while making a milkshake. My milkshake is now salty with tears ;▲;
Return back and watch again
@@Ahmed_W you mad man. Thank you, I got to experience that beautiful film again.
전체적인 감정선을 잔잔히 따라가다가 마지막 와인잔이 ' 짠 ' 하고 부딪히는 그 작은 소리에 정말 감정이 폭발하는걸 느꼈습니다. 너무 훌륭한..작품ㅠㅠ
This is my first time ever seeing this film. My family recently had to move out of our family home - the only one I have ever known. I feel like our tower of small cubes is abandoned and unfinished.
We will make a new tower in a new place, but I will miss the memories that came with being in our home.
Thank you for uploading this.
Nostalgic for things I never had and the things I never lost
I'm not crying.. it's just the onions I swear... :'(
The House of Small Cubes made me cry for about a minute or two since it was sad and happy at the same time.
Absolute Masterpiece. Very well done!
This is truly wonderful.
I was not expecting this, im literally crying so hard, this was so beautiful
This is an actually perfect film. So incredibly well done.
Amazing. Best 12 minutes I have ever spent on youtube right here. Very well done.
2020 and Im still watching this
One of the most charming cinematographic pieces I’ve ever watched! Just beautiful! 🎞
Thanks for sharing it!
oh this short film was amazing... the music is so calming and fits the atmosphere too.
yep, after all these years i still mange to cry watching this masterpiece, i can't express how deeply this short movie hits me, i'm speechless
such an incredible story. loved every minute of it.
This is true art and masterpiece
A stunning work of art. Absolutely beautiful.
I remember watching this for the first time, i cried. This is my favourite short video
I cried, this is awesome
i cant handle this, i’m crying and my emotions are all over the place
incredibly beautiful
0 words, thousands of emotions.
ABsolutely Love this, no words, just nostalgia and sadness. great inspiration!
love this ... the character, technique, texture ... the mood
Short film but deep message,🙂
astonishing piece of art❤❤
up borrows a lot from this short yet both gives the same impact for me... i hope my life will be filled with lots of pleasant memories like him
This is beautiful
I came back to watch after years still bawling😭😭
Beautiful!
Beautiful journey of life and truth ,AS he takes us all down the memories with water levels ,it felt like time travel and took my breath away, Thank you for making this Kunio Kato.
The isolation he feels in his tiny room, surrounded by water, is how my husband and I feel stuck in our house during Corona Virus lockdowns. It was very touchingly sad this film.
Beautiful. Outstanding. Demonstrates the beginning to the end of so much of our lives without a single word. Thank You for sharing this.
The soundtrack is mesmerizing!
Every great animation begins with a clever concept. From that point its up to the animators to allow the story to be unveiled in a manner fitting. To all those involved - bravo.
Super great!
This film makes you just want to cry.....Life...is so beautiful. You all deserve to enjoy and cherish all the memories you can make with your loved ones.
This was amazing.
this has been my #1 for so long…8 years later I am still sharing this with the ones who matter most. ❤
12 minutes and not a single word, yet it tells such a deep and emotional story.
You know this is like not fair bc I cried today when my friend gave me a hug
Wonderful and profound.
Wonderful short film; absolutely great story visuals etc
yeah life goes on and there's nothing you can do about it.
Aw man.. I'm a grown man with tears running down his face. Jeez this video really does mean alot.
don't you just wish there was more 💜💜💜💜 this is all sorts of feels
My favourite animated short of all time.
Wow ❤ this is the most beautiful thing I've seen 💗 absolutely amazing
Talk about diving into ones past. Bittersweet little film