Nobody expects a two-minute fable to matter. This one does. A country mouse and a city mouse swap lives, and the film doesn't mock either choice, it lets you feel the actual cost of each one, the quiet terror of unfamiliar ground, the hollowness hiding beneath comfort. By the time it ends, you've watched two small creatures choose their own small truths. That's the whole film. That's enough.
Kazuhiko Watanabe is credited with this brief animated film, which adapts one of Aesop's fables. As the title suggests, the story centers on a country mouse and a town mouse. Told as a small adventure, the film runs as a single short feature.