Osamu Tezuka's decadent manga 'Barbara' turned into film by son : The Asahi Shimbun
A scene from "Tezuka's Barbara" (Provided by Free Stone Productions Co.) Director Makoto Tezuka accepted the risky challenge of adapting what is perhaps his famous father's most peculiar manga, a piece so personal that likely only the man who wrote it truly grasped its meaning. Based on "Barubora" by Osamu Tezuka, aka the "god of manga," "Tezuka's Barbara" is a fantasy riddled with decadence. "I think this was the only manga that my father had trouble in creating," the director said. "In a positive sense, its instability is all the more reason for it to be strangely appealing." The story b...
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