A children's song becomes a meditation on what it means to encounter something wild and survive it with kindness. Yoji Kuri's animation turns a century-old American campfire staple into something quieter, stranger, more honest about fear and gentleness colliding. The Dark Ducks' voices sit in the space between lullaby and warning, and that balance is everything.

Mori no Kuma-san is the Japanese rendition of The Other Day I Met a Bear, a traditional American camp song written in 1919 by Carey Morgan and Lee David. The single music video was made for NHK's Minna no Uta program, with animation by Yoji Kuri and vocals by the Japanese male chorus group Dark Ducks.