Tatsumi
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1h 36m
Directed by Eric Khoo | 96 mins | 2011
In the 1950s, a darker and more cinematic strain appeared in Japanese manga, dubbed “gekiga”—a name said to have been coined by Yoshihiro Tatsumi, an artist at the forefront of this edgy and distinctly adult tradition. In this prismatic biographical work, first unveiled as part of the Un Certain Regard program at Cannes, animated episodes from Tatsumi’s life are interwoven with a selection of his stories.
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