In the 19th century, a small Japanese girl named Yune arrives at Paris. She has traveled to France with Oscar Claudel to work at his shop, Enseignes du Roy. There she meets his grandson, Claude Claudel, a blacksmith who makes street signs for stores. Caught in a whole new cultural experience, both Yune and Claude learn a lot from each other while they try to keep the shop open despite the declining number of customers at the Galerie du Roy. Once a popular marketplace, many nearby businesses are closing as they are all engulfed by the waves of change.
The story takes place in the second half of the 19th century, as Japanese culture gains popularity in the West. A young Japanese girl, Yune, accompanies a French traveller, Oscar, on his journey back to France, and offers to help at the family's ironwork shop in Paris. Oscar's nephew and shopowner Claude reluctantly accepts to take care of Yune, and we learn how those two, who have so little in common, get to understand each other and live together in the Paris of the 1800s.
Alternative title:
- Ikoku Meiro no Croisée (Japanese)
- La croisée dans un labyrinthe étranger (French)
Croisée in a Foreign Labyrinth - The Animation (TV): Special Edition Complete Box Set (DVD) Episode Titles:
- 1. Entrance
- 2. Cheese
- 3. Labyrinth of Japan
- 4. Water Light
- 5. Lost Child
- 6. Crinoline
- 7. Skylight
- 8. Child's Room
- 9. Secrets
- 10. Phantasmagoria
- 11. Prayer
- 12. Cat on the Roof
