1985

An excerpt from Sivi dom, a cult series about a youth reform institution in Kruševac made by Television Belgrade (1985).
One is only one in this world, friendships are rare and harsh. Inmates, at their best, are stealing wallets while saving lifes.
I have my hands to be tied, I have my legs to run, I have my mouth to lie.
This is the ending scene of the series (episode 12). A large group of escaped inmates is caught and brought back. This is not the first time inmates sing this song (among others, they sang it on Silja's release).
At this time, Crni is dead, while Sojka, having killed Beli, is taken to an adult prison. At the very end of the scene, Matić and Savka are reunited.

Vanishing

A scene from Blade Runner, a film directed by Ridley Scott (1982). Another personal favourite.
All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain
Time to die
Awaiting his death in 1827, Senryu wrote this death poem with strikingly similar wording:

Like dew drops
on a lotus leaf
I vanish

When my time runs up, my last words will hopefully not state the obvious. I want to live the time allotted to me, not die it. Perhaps something similar to the last words of general John Sedgwick before he died in battle:
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...

Last wandering

Sick on a journey,
only my dreams will wander
these desolate moors.

A death poem is written when one feels his death acoming. The one posted here is by Matsuo Bashō. His last wandering. Even a horse arrested his eyes on that snowy morrow.

Wanderers

"The rains of the long journey have torn my hat, and my coat has crumbled in the daily storms... I suddenly remember the master of the wild verse, Chikusai, wandering in the old days on these paths," wrote Matsuo Bashō before he opened Winter Days, a famous renku (linked verse), with the following hokku:

In the withering gusts
a wanderer -
how much like Chikusai I have become!

In order to make a renku, Japanese poets sat in a circle, and the verses traveled from one poet to the next. The first poet, the master of verse – Bashō in this case - wrote the first three verses (the hokku), then the next poet borrowed the previous poet’s ending verse and added his two verses to construct a new poem, and so it went all the way to the last poet in the circle.
Winter Days was made in the 17th century by a circle of 36 poets.
In 2003, Kihachirō Kawamoto gave life to Winter Days as a linked animation by inviting 36 animators to each create a 30-seconds long animation of verses written by each of the 36 poets. Yuri Norstein, the master of wild animation, was invited to create an animation of Bashō's hokku. Norstein created this minute long animation in which the two wanderers - Bashō, the poet and Chikusai, the character of lore – meet.

Master of wild verse

In the withering gusts,
a wanderer -
how much like Chikusai I have become!

Winter Days by Matsuo Bashō (1684)

Heron and Crane

Heron and Crane, a short animation by Yuri Norstein (1974). A personal favourite.

It’s raining Robert Mitchum

As for me, I long for the days of… Robert Mitchum
I know, he was a little beefy and soft
But when he took it all off
He was… bitchin'
Robert Mitchum song from Naked Boys Singing!, an off-Broadway musical.