Tezuka Osamu no Buddha – Akai Sabaku yo! Utsukushiku
April 16, 2011
Tezuka Osamu no Buddha – Akai Sabaku yo! Utsukushiku
Buddha (ブッダ) is a critically acclaimed manga (1972-1983) by Osamu Tezuka, representing unique interpretation of the life of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. The manga will be adapted to anime trilogy. The first movie, Tezuka Osamu no Buddha – Akai Sabaku yo! Utsukushiku, will premiere on May 28 in Japan, coinciding with the celebrations of the 750th memorial of Shinran Shonin, founder of the Jōdo Shinshū sect. The budget for the first movie was about $11 million.
Staff
- Director: Kozo Morishita
- Screenplay: Reiko Yoshida
- Music: Michiru Oshima
- Art Director: Shinzo Yuki
Cast
- Ai Orikasa as young Siddartha
- Hidetaka Yoshioka as Siddartha
- Junko Takeuchi as young Chapra
- Kiyokazu Kanze as Suddhodana
- Masato Sakai as Chapra
- Sayuri Yoshinaga as Chapra’s Mother
- Tomoka Kurotani as Princess Marikka
This is going to be an amazing movie! I can only imagine how Tezuka’s work would be animated. Then the anticipation of just waiting for X Japan’s new CD is just immense.
I hope so! It looks promising, and I am glad that they are doing a trilogy rather than just trying to compress everything into one film. Oshima is working on music – it will be great!
Scarlet Love Song is going to be release world wide next week on Itunes!!!
That’s great! Thank you for mentioning this
kyaaaaaaaaaah~~~~ yes, yes X Japan music, great animation and character designs, even if I’ve seen the trailer before I still want to scream from happiness
Makoto’s Shinkai new film (collaboration with Ghibli) is going to be great as well
Indeed, it looks very promising
I heard about that Shinkai film, but don’t have much information yet.
I can’t wait to watch this movie! I hope it will get subbed soon
The trailer looks great, and the song by X Japan blends in very nicely!
Oh, I am sure it will be subbed. I also eagerly await the film