A woman's hair becomes the canvas for her life story in this one-minute visual poem. Made as a 60-second commercial for Kao's Asience shampoo, the piece takes the old saying that hair is a woman's life and uses it as a metaphor for feminine existence, told as a tragic samurai-era love story. Kazuto Nakazawa directs and designs the characters, and Shuichi Hirata handles art direction. The look borrows from eighteenth-century Japanese painting, with nervous, expressive brush outlines traced by hand in pencil and no help from 3D animation. The result is a short drama from Production I.G.