The Collected Essays of Tezuka Osamu Volume 8

STORY

This essay collection consists of pieces written not from the point of view of the movie fan, but rather from the perspective of actually making movies, including comments on his colleagues Lucas, Spielberg, Kurosawa Akira, and Woody Allen, all written from Tezuka Osamu's perspective as an animation writer. In a piece called, "The collapse of the animation family," Tezuka Osamu expresses his frustration at the lack of communication between television animation artists, experimental animation artists, and other artists who create animation with the aid of computers. Here he poses the question as to why the different animation artists-who are after all of the same genre-cannot get along, and instead engage in calling each other names; i.e. the television animation artist pounds the experimental artist for being "self-satisfied," while the experientialists make fun of the TV artists, accusing them of being "lowbrow." As the leading figure in Japanese animation, and as an individual who had been involved in both experimental and television productions with equal enthusiasm, Tezuka Osamu sincerely wished to improve the situation characterizing the world of Japanese animation, penning these essays with thought for its future.

DESCRIPTIONS

Based on "Watching, Shooting, Screening" published in 1987 by Kinema-Junpo Co., Ltd.