Live-action version of Osamu Tezuka’s erotic manga will premiere in competition at Tokyo film festival.
Japan’s Nikkatsu Corp has picked up international rights to Tezuka’s Barbara, a live-action version of Osamu Tezuka’s erotic manga Barbara, which will receive its world premiere in competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival later this month.
Directed by Tezuka’s son, Macoto Tezka, the film has been produced to celebrate the 90th birth year of the late anime pioneer who created the Astro Boy character. Goro Inagaki (13 Assassins) and Fumi Nikaido (Himizu) star as a novelist and the muse who...
Japan’s Nikkatsu Corp has picked up international rights to Tezuka’s Barbara, a live-action version of Osamu Tezuka’s erotic manga Barbara, which will receive its world premiere in competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival later this month.
Directed by Tezuka’s son, Macoto Tezka, the film has been produced to celebrate the 90th birth year of the late anime pioneer who created the Astro Boy character. Goro Inagaki (13 Assassins) and Fumi Nikaido (Himizu) star as a novelist and the muse who...
- 10/4/2019
- by 89¦Liz Shackleton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
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