Tezuka Osamu
手塚 治虫 (Wikipedia) is a dead god.
Tezuka is widely regarded as the most influential figure in manga, partly because official adulation of Tezuka after his death in 1989 became a means of obscuring early realistic anti-establishment comics which was often more serious work. His lifetime production is huge and a lot of it is very commercial, but he has made some arthouse pieces for festivals and the like.
Work
The following works of Tezuka Osamu are reviewed on this site.
- Writer: “Tales of the Street Corner” (1962)
- Director: “Ningyo” (1964)
- Writer-director: “Pictures at an Exhibition” (1966)
- Writer: “Sougen no ko Tenguri” (1977)
- Writer-director: Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature (1984)
- Writer-director: “Jumping” (1984)
- Writer-director: “Broken Down Film” (1985)
- Writer-director: “Legend of the Forest” (1987)
Other
The following make direct references to the Tezuka Osamu tag.
- Phoenix 2772 (1980)
- “I Parted Ways with Osamu Tezuka When I Saw the ‘Hand of God’ in Him” (1989)
- The Lion King (1994)
- Tezuka’s Barbara (2019)