‘Habataki ~Ein Marchen~’ is an adaptation of popular novelist, Hori Tatsuo, (famed for his modernism and proletarian literature during the Showa period) novella of the same name. This is one of his early fantasy pieces published in 1931 and collected in ‘Hori Tatsuo Early Fantasy Masterpieces’.

A young boy meets a mysterious person who gives him a little box which produces a beautiful sound. Short, surreal and poetic.