An overnight stay for an animated OsakaSourced
To draw the neighborhood, the director reportedly spent a night there.
The 1981 animated film Jarinko Chie is set in working-class Osaka. Director Isao Takahata reportedly stayed overnight at a local lodging house while researching the area. Its fictional streets drew on a real place.
A night outside the studio helped shape the city on screen.
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