Anime News

Was Tezuka Inspired By China?
Date: 8/25/2006
That's the premise of the exibition "Tezuka Osamu No Atom To Son Goku Ten (Atom) No Rutsu Ha Chuugoku Anime Niatta?" to open at the Suginami Animation Museum on August 29th. The god of manga is known to have taken queues from Walt Disney's early works (giving us the convention of hge eyes in anime and manga today), but he is also known to have seen Chinese animation such as the Wan brothers' 1941 film Saiyuki Tetsu Ougi Koushu No Kan. A number of elements of this film (storyboards / cels) will be shown at Suginami until November 26th. www.sam.or.jp
Source: Anime News Service