Nobody talks about this one. Three stories from Kenji Miyazawa, a writer who saw the world sideways, where glaciers wear coats and cats file paperwork and stars make promises to each other across the night sky. This is folklore for people who read, not people who just consume, each segment a small perfect box that opens into something stranger and sadder the longer you look at it. The animation doesn't try to be beautiful in the way modern anime chases beauty. It trusts the stories enough to get out of the way. If you've ever felt like an outsider in your own life, Miyazawa wrote about you a hundred years ago, and this film lets you sit with that recognition in the dark.

Kenji no Trunk is a 1996 fantasy omnibus film that adapts three stories by the author Kenji Miyazawa. The three segments are The Coat of a Glacier Mouse, The Cat's Office, and The Twin Stars, each telling a separate tale from Miyazawa's work, brought together in a single feature.