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The Astonishing Work of Tezuka Osamu
Jun. 5th, 2010 12:55 pmEver since I joined the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, I've been getting all kinds of tempting magazines full of obscure DVDs to drool over. One temptation I just couldn't resist was Kino International's "The Astonishing Work of Tezuka Osamu" (2009), a collection of Tezuka's short films from the 1960's-80's.
The last film in this collection, “Self-Portrait,” is a little 13-second visual gag on a slot machine. It shows three spinning panels of mixed face-parts that mismatch, mismatch, mismatch and then finally add up to Tezuka’s classic big-nosed, beret-clad self-caricature, who spits out money. This is the perfect image to sum up Tezuka’s short films: they're all a bit of a gamble, but in the end they generally pay off.
( Spoilers ahead! )
The last film in this collection, “Self-Portrait,” is a little 13-second visual gag on a slot machine. It shows three spinning panels of mixed face-parts that mismatch, mismatch, mismatch and then finally add up to Tezuka’s classic big-nosed, beret-clad self-caricature, who spits out money. This is the perfect image to sum up Tezuka’s short films: they're all a bit of a gamble, but in the end they generally pay off.
( Spoilers ahead! )
