Original monochrome version of a short experimental film by animation pioneer Yoji Kuri.
Ningen Doubutsuen is based on a poem by Shuntarou Tanikawa.
The film won the Special Jury Prize at Annecy in 1963 and the bronze award for animation at the 1963 Biennale in Venice. It also won the 1965 Oofuji Noburou Award.
(Source: MAL)