This one lowers your heart rate. It runs a single short, and it spends that runtime on one idea: the narcissus are opening, spring is basically here, and winter still has one cold morning left to spend. That's Kenji Miyazawa's fingerprint all over it, the writer who treats weather like a character with intentions and a calendar of its own, and the film trusts you to sit inside the hush instead of pumping it full of incident. There is no spectacle here by design, just the fourth day of Narcissus Month and the last icy breath before the thaw. If you grew up on Miyazawa in a school reader and always felt the cold in his sentences, this is that feeling animated, no louder than it needs to be. Watch it on an actual winter night, alone, with the lights off.

On the fourth day of the Narcissus Month, the narcissus flowers have begun to bloom and spring is close, but winter still has one last icy breath to give. This one-episode fantasy special adapts an original story by Kenji Miyazawa, the celebrated Japanese poet and author of fairy tales, and it is set on that final cold day before the season turns.