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8/10(SUN) 13:45- Grand Hall |
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| Animation with Love: The Work of Osamu Tezuka |
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This year marks the 80th anniversary of Osamu Tezuka's birth.
Born on November 3, 1928, in Toyonaka City, Osaka, Osamu Tezuka was a great pioneer and ground-breaking figure in the world of manga comics and animation, the pride of Japan throughout the world.
Raising manga comics to works of culture, Tezuka's achievement of spreading animation to the broader public is immeasurable.
Osamu Tezuka was a passionate artist who never lost his pioneering spirit and continued throughout his lifetime to disseminate the values of love, peace, and the preciousness of human life through manga and animation.
He was also involved in the teaching of the next generation in his position as the first president of the Japan Animation Association.
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Osamu Tezuka continued to work at the forefront of manga and animation through his lifetime. He sadly passed away in Tokyo on February 9, 1989, at the age of sixty.A large-scale exhibition of his work was held at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, the only one of its kind to be held for a manga and animation artist.
His great achievements are currently honored at the Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum, located in Takarazuka City, Hyogo Prefecture, where he spent his adolescence.
"Broken Down Film" was awarded the Grand Prix at the 1st International Animation Festival HIROSHIMA.
At the 2nd Festival Tezuka served as one of the international Jury members.
The 3rd Festival included a commemorative program, "Homage to Osamu Tezuka".
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[Part 1]
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Screenings |
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| "Tezuka Animation Grafffiti" |
(8min) |
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A superb anthology of the openings and various scenes of Osamu Tezuka's most renowned animations for television and cinema.
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| "ASTRO BOY" |
(24min) |
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The first 30-minute television series made in Japan.
This work took Japan by storm, and became a huge hit shown in forty countries throughout the world.
This memorable work marks the beginning of cartoons in Japan.
The first of Tezuka's adaptations of his own original manga into anime for television.
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| "JUNPING" |
(6min) |
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A work in which Humorist Tezuka "took a journalistic viewpoint as amanga artist.
This is an astonishing one-shot animation film in the first person, comprising as many as 4000 images, filled with the enjoyment and pleasure of movement, the true thrill of animation.
Winner of the Grand Prix at ANIMAFEST – Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films.
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| "Tales of The Street Corner" |
(38min) |
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An animated poem that makes a strong appeal against war. The first of Tezuka's memorable experimental anime works. |
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| "Muramasa" |
(9min) |
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A unique animation of historical tale by Tezuka about the unfortunate fate of a samurai who comes across the haunted sword Muramasa. |
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| "JUNGLE EMPEROR" |
(24min) |
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An epic drama set in the African continent, depicting the growth of the hero Leo, a white lion. One of Tezuka's representative manga works. First TV series in color in Japan.
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| "Broken Down Film" |
(6min) |
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Animation paying homage to and parodies silent manga films, filled with jokes and nonsense.
Winner of the Grand Prix at the 1st International Animation Festival HIROSHIMA. |
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[Part 2]
Greeting/
Macoto Tezka (Visualist / managing director of NEONTETRA Ltd. Director of Tezuka Production Co.,Ltd.)
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Screenings |
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| "Rain Boy" |
(24min) |
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Story of the timeless friendship of a youth and a phantom, teaching us the importance of trust and commitment. This is an animation that is filled with the spirit of kindness, and a work that Tezuka himself loved. |
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Talk Show "Osamu and Atom and the Days of Anime" (40 min) |
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An enjoyable talk show full of humor, where talented directors who were involved in Tezuka animations share their feelings about their experiences on the production set.
Greeting/
Takayuki Matsutani (President of Tezuka Production Co.,Ltd.)
Speakers/
Gisaburo Sugii (Animation Film Director) "Night on the Galactic Railroad"
Osamu Dezaki (Animation Film Director, Script Writer) "Tomorrow's Joe", "AIR"
Yoshiyuki Tomino (Animation Film Director) "Triton of The Sea", "MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM"
Rintaro (Animation Film Director) "GALAXY EXPRESS 999", "METROPOLIS"
Ryosuke Takahashi (Animation Film Director) "The Phoenix", "FLAG"
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