Tatsumi

Tatsumi

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Genre

Drama, Animation

Director

Eric Khoo

Run time

1h 36min

The film follows the career of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, as he begins to work as a comic artist in post-war occupied Japan, meets his idol Osamu Tezuka, and invents the gekiga genre of Japanese comics for adults. Interweaved with the biographical material are segments based on Tatsumi's short stories "Hell", "Beloved Monkey", "Just a Man", "Good-Bye" and "Occupied".

Genre

Drama, Animation

Director

Eric Khoo

Run time

1h 36min

The film follows the career of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, as he begins to work as a comic artist in post-war occupied Japan, meets his idol Osamu Tezuka, and invents the gekiga genre of Japanese comics for adults. Interweaved with the biographical material are segments based on Tatsumi's short stories "Hell", "Beloved Monkey", "Just a Man", "Good-Bye" and "Occupied".

Info

Rating

For All Audiences

Production year

2011

Global distributor

-

Local distributor

-

In cinema

5/5/2012