Yodaka (The Nighthawk Is Not a Hawk)

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Japanese: よだか

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: 2023

Producers: Geidai Animation

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Source: Book

Genre: Drama

Duration: 8 min.

Rating: G - All Ages

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Ranked: #16101²

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Popularity: #20778

Members: 248

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Synopsis

The Nighthawk is an ugly bird. So ugly that everyone thinks he stole the name and the Hawk demands that he relinquish it. The Nighthawk cannot accept this, but he also realizes that he's not much different from the Hawk.

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Graduate Work 2023 by Junjie Wang, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.

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Fuyama, Taruto

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Miyazawa, Kenji

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Feb 25, 2025

Fischernobyl

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Beautiful. The innocence of Yodaka and the way he is treated by the other birds transform what he is—an empathetic animal who wishes no harm to any species, whether they treat him well or not. Skeptical of the instinctive arguments of the fauna, he questions whether the diet imposed by the food chain is truly ordained by God or merely a collective choice of a specific society to feed on the same target, making him ponder the possibilities of life after the extinction of the prey. He increasingly identifies as nature itself—neither as flora, despite his disguise among the trees, nor as fauna, for, just ...