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A hand drawn animated short by Studio Ghibli.


“Like a child's dream come to life...”
A boy walks down the street and as he goes along his strides increase. Eventually he leaps over towns, forests, and oceans, seeing many things and surprising many people along the way.
Jumping is a animation, fantasy film released in 1984 exploring themes of atomic bomb, hell, surrealism, forest, jumping, battlefield. Directed by Osamu Tezuka, A boy walks down the street and as he goes along his strides increase. Eventually he leaps over towns, forests, and oceans, seeing many things and surprising many people along the way.
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