Yasuo Ōtsuka

Paul Grimault, image par image

Fabienne Issartel

Paul Grimault, Yasuo Ōtsuka

Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo

Soji Yoshikawa, Yasuo Ōtsuka

Yasuo Yamada, Kiyoshi Kobayashi

Interpol Inspector Zenigata embarks to Egypt in hot pursuit of world's most wanted master thief, Lupin the Third, who is seeking a stone artifact with his partners, Jigen and Goemon. Notorious femme fatale, Fujiko Mine is also after the stone, lured by the promise of eternal youth and beauty by the sinister and enigmatic scientist known as Mamo. It all leads to Mamo's hideaway, where Lupin discovers the madman's dark secret and a fiendish scheme that threatens the entire planet! Now, it's up to Lupin to stop the insane Mamo before he can complete his 10,000 year-old plans of world domination.

草原の子テングリ

Yasuo Ōtsuka

Etsuko Ichihara, Yoshiko Ohta

The story surrounds a boy and a cow who have always lived their lives together. One winter, a famine strikes their village. The villagers resolve to the cow, but the boy secretly helped the cow escape. A few years ago, the boy (now grown-up) and the cow meet again...

アニメ師・杉井ギサブロー

Masato Ishioka

Gisaburō Sugii, Yasuo Ōtsuka

A master of Japanese animation, Gisaburo Sugii talks candidly about his career and creative process in this rare and exciting piece of film.

大塚康生の動かす喜び

Toshiro Uratani

Yasuo Ōtsuka, Hayao Miyazaki

Yasuo Ōtsuka was the mentor of Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki, the man who taught them to feel the joy of animation. As the supervising animator of their films and through the creation of superb scenes such as Lupin leaping from turret to turret in Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro, Ōtsuka made the impossible believable, and touched people’s emotions. To look back at the many works he was involved in is to review the history of Japanese animation after WWII. This film is a must for anime fans who want to learn how Japanese animation evolved.

飄々～拝啓、大塚康生様～

Hidenori Ushiro

Yasuo Ōtsuka, Isao Takahata

Documentary about Yasuo Otsuka, famous Japanese animator and mentor of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. Featuring interviews with Japanese animation legends such as Masaaki Osumi, Youichi Kotabe, Sadao Tsukioka and Isao Takahata.