Wool 100% (2006)

Director:

Mai Tominaga

Writer:

Mai Tominaga (screenplay)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Fantasy

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Dollhouse | Knitting | Accordion | Sister Sister Relationship | Surrealism

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Kyôko Kishida	...	Ume
Kazuko Yoshiyuki	...	Kame
Ayu Kitaura	...	Aminaoshi
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sayuri Fujii
Carolina Kaneda
Eiko Koike	...	Narration (voice)
Tamaki Mihara
Tiara
Ryo Tomita

Directed by
Mai Tominaga

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Mai Tominaga		screenplay

Produced by
Masahiro Harada	....	producer
Masatoshi Matsue	....	executive producer
Nobuhiko Sakoh	....	executive producer
Tomohiko Seki	....	line producer
Masuo Takahashi	....	executive producer
Kazuhiko Yusa	....	producer

Original Music by
Hiroyasu Yaguchi

Cinematography by
Satoshi Seno

Film Editing by
Katsuichi Nagashima

Art Direction by
Yuji Tsuzuki

Set Decoration by
Hirohide Shibata

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Daichi Ichihara	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Ichiho Maeda	....	sound recordist

Visual Effects by
Kikuji Nakano	....	visual effects

Camera and Electrical Department
Tomoharu Ozaki	....	gaffer

Animation Department
Mariko Matsunari	....	character designer
Osamu Sakai	....	animation director

Other crew
Masayuki Taniguchi	....	assistant to director

Thanks
Chieko Murata	....	special thanks
Alesia Weston	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Klock Worx Company, The
• Pyramid Film
• Sojitz Corporation

Distributors

• Klock Worx Company, The (2006) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Cinema Epoch (2007) (USA) (all media)

Other Companies

• Robot  animated sequence

Also Known As:

Runtime:

Japan:100 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS

Certification:

South Korea:12

Company:

Klock Worx Company, The

Strange but not a film for me....

"Wool 100%" is an exceptionally difficult film to describe. It's about two nasty sisters who love collecting things on their daily walks. However, when they bring home some red yarn, their lives change dramatically.

"Wool 100%" could easily have been called "Weird 100%", as it's an incredibly strange and occasionally annoying film. It's the sort of thing you might expect from Japan and is about as far removed from a Hollywood sort of production as you can imagine! Usually, this would be a good thing but in this particular case, it was just too weird and too much. Now I am not saying I need for a film to be 'normal'. After all, one of my very favorite Japanese films is "Happiness of the Katakuris" and I also like such oddities as "Zebraman", "Tampopo" and "The Eel"--and all of these (especially "Happiness of the Katakuris") are odd films to say the least. However, unlike these other films I just didn't find the payoff for all the strangeness--it just went on and on and the loud screaming that occasionally pierced the film made me just want to turn it off. Not satisfying to me at all--and I wanted to like it.