Peabody Award-winning director Jason Andrew Cohn and the Bread & Butter Films production team (Camille Servan-Schreiber, Jinko Gotoh, Glen S. Fukushima, and Roland Kelts) are celebrating Osamu Tezuka’s life and legacy with TEZUKA! God of Manga, an all-new, feature-length documentary. The film features interviews with legendary manga and anime creators, including Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira), Riyoko Ikeda (Rose of Versaille), Naoki Urasawa (Monster), Go Nagai (Devilman), Toshiyuki Tomino (Gundam), MADHOUSE co-founder and anime producer Masao Maruyama (Tokyo Godfathers), anime director Rintaro (Metropolis), best-selling fantasy author Ada Palmer (Too Like the Lightning), Samuel Sattin (Unico Awakening), and Jorge R. Gutierrez (The Book of Life), and leading manga scholars, Fred Schodt (Manga! Manga!) and Helen McCarthy (The Manga Bible). Once funded, the producers will schedule additional interviews with artists including Paul Pope (THB) and Ronald Wimberly (Prince of Cats).
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i’d watch it, interested to have my reservations about tezuka confirmed or challenged.
