HIDARI (Pilot Film) - The Stop-Motion Samurai Film

*Please click on the subtitle button for English subtitles
*英語の後に日本語が続きます

After being betrayed by his peers and lost both his father and his right arm, legendary craftsman "Jingoro Hidari" is on a journey of revenge with his partner "Sleeping Cat" and his mechanical prosthetic arm. Finally, Jingoro faces one of his adversaries "Inumaru" in a fight to the death...

This is a pilot version of the stop-motion samurai film that tells the story of "Jingoro Hidari," a legendary Edo-era craftsman. All the characters are made by wood and animated frame by frame, just like how Jingoro's wooden sculptures came to life in his many anecdotes. We hope you enjoy this film, which mixes dynamic actions as seen in Japanimation, and the rich analog expressions of stop-motion animation.

Our intention is to use this pilot film as a starting point to create a full length feature film. We have started activities to raise the necessary partners and funding to achieve this goal.

伝説の名工「左甚五郎」は、仲間の裏切りによって育ての親と右腕を失い、
カラクリ義手と相棒の「眠り猫」を連れ復讐の旅を続けている。
そしてついに、仇の一人である「犬丸」と対峙するのであった...。

この作品は、江戸時代に存在したとされる伝説の名工「左甚五郎」の物語を描いた
ストップモーション時代劇のパイロット・フィルムです。
左甚五郎にまつわる様々な逸話と同じように
「木彫りの人形にコマ撮りで命を吹き込む」ことで映像化しています。
ジャパニメーションのようなダイナミックなアクションと、
ストップモーションのアナログな世界観を大胆にミックスした、
かつて観たことのないような映像をお楽しみください。

このパイロットフィルムを出発点に、最終的には長編映画を完成させたいと考えています。
その実現のために必要な各種パートナーや資金を調達するための活動を始めております。

You can purchase HIDARI merchandise from the link below!
HIDARIのグッズを以下で販売中！

👕HIDARI Support T-shirt

🥷HIDARI Tenugui (Japanese Hand Towel)

🖼️HIDARI Movie Poster（B1）

🎨HIDARI Movie Poster（A2）

[masakaaa]

Hi everyone on YouTube! Thank you for all the positive vibes and encouraging comments here❤The whole HIDARI team is feeling massive love from the global community, and it helps us big time, to keep pushing forward to making more of Jingoro’s stories come to life. I have a much longer story to tell about him, and yes, it involves his origin, more villains, more mecha, and more secret prosthetic weaponry :) Pls share the vid to your friends, as we continue to search for production partners & investors to make this into a full length film or series. Huge ARIGATO! Masa (Director & Voice actor of the doggo)

[thomaspalazzolo]

The detail of his cat being the one from the real life Hidari Jingoro carving is so great.

[purplehaze]

Stopmotion is that one medium I don't think that many people necessarily _want_ to do, but when it is done on a semi-professional level, it always comes out as a masterpiece.

[OnlyAson]

My favorite thing about this is how no one's pretending that these aren't people made of wood. All the protagonists weapons are wood working tools or wooden mechanisms. Sawdust instead of blood. Even everything has a nice wooden clunk sound when it moves. It totally embraces the art form and breaks the 4th wall while giving me the feeling that this is just part of the lore of this world. The fight choreography is interesting and stylish. One of the coolest and most clever things I've seen in a while. Definitely would watch more of this.

[steamyninja]

This fight reminds me of the famous quote, “be weary of the old man in a profession where men die young.” It’s exactly this. You’ve got an old guy slicing through dozens of young fighters.

[ToozdaysChild]

I love the detail that the chainsaw doesn't make the sterotypical sound of a growling engine, but rather a clockwork rattle.

[jacobcox]

I like how Jingoro's weapons are all tools you'd see a wood carver use. The weapons even come out of a tool box.

[FemboyJoe]

The scene where he literally SAWS a guy upward. Dear lord it was fantastic! The acknowledgement of that theyre all wood is used to such creative lengths that makes this WORTHY of being called a masterpiece.

[ChronoSquare]

If the vision for a full length film looks just like this and not much more I would still love to go see it in a movie theatre. American Hollywood is most definitely not putting out anything that can match this level of artistic passion, love, and creativity!

[obiduckkenobi]

Never... and I repeat.... NEVER have I ever seen a stopmotion movie this amazing! This is perfection
And it left me speechless. Please continue this as a series

[Kenyan-Karavan-Klub]

Absolutely incredible stop motion animation.

Also, if there's ever a Sekiro 2, they NEED to add a chainsaw arm prosthetic.

[octochan]

They are so committed to the wooden theme, the dog panting sounds like sawing wood! That's attention to detail!

[terracottagecheese]

I keep replaying the part when he first pulls the cord on the chainsaw because I'm just astounded by the fluidity of his movement. This is honestly mesmerizing! Fantastic work!

[zanderxleangel]

I really like how the sawdust effects really emphasize the action in the fight scene, and gives a lot of impact to they move

[jetephant]

This feels like if Kubo and the Two Strings and Cyberpunk had a love child. Truly magnificent.

[hullinstruments]

Speechless. I've made guitars, violins, and countless other things with hand tools for nearly two decades full-time. The craftsmanship and style of the carvings and finishing is just off the charts and absolutely beautiful. I would love to work on something like that. This was incredible

[Blaxpoon]

The part where he grabs the guy and the whole camera rotates as he is moving his arm is cool

[aaron_k]

This is the pinnacle of Japanese artistry, puppetry, choreography, cinematography, and music. I don't know what I did to deserve this masterpiece. Thank you Team Hidari!

[sdgamer]

Someone give the creator a gold medal for this Pilot Film. Also the fact this is Stop-Motion makes it even better and proves even big movies can do this (I doubt Hollywood would ever though). Lastly i don't know why but, i get some Sekiro vibes from some of these weapons, mostly from the Gauntlet and Hack Saw looking sword plus how he takes his arm off and replaces it with his Chainsaw Arm

[hogfry]

This was a masterclass in cinematography, stop motion, story telling and action. This deserves to be a feature film.