Tezuka Productions has released the first trailer of TEZUKA! GOD OF MANGA, an all-new, feature-length documentary that celebrates Osamu Tezuka’s life and legacy.
Directed by Jason Andrew Cohn and produced by Bread & Butter Films (Camille Servan-Schreiber, Jinko Gotoh, Glen S. Fukushima, and Roland Kelts), the film features interviews with Katsuhiro Otomo, Riyoko Ikeda (池田 理代子), Naoki Urasawa (浦沢 直樹), Go Nagai (永井 豪), Toshiyuki Tomino (富野 由悠季), Masao Maruyama (丸山 正雄), Rintarō (りんたろう), Ada Palmer, Samuel Sattin, Jorge R. Gutierrez, Fred Schodt and Helen McCarthy. Once funded, the producers are planning additional interviews with artists including Paul Pope and Ronald Wimberly.
The film will be funded by a Kickstarter campaign that will launch soon:
Otomo's comments
Tezuka-sensei was truly incredible, you can read a lot of manga these days but nobody produced as much as he did.
