Zootopia 2 - runtime 108 minutes

Caught this when reading Dumas’ Nutcracker for research.

And of course Disney wasn’t the sole influence. I initially wrote this as an aside to my Unico history vid to assert that Unico was Tezuka’s reflection on his Disney inspirations. Princess Iron Fan and Momotaro were both massive influences.

The speculation section is linked in the description. It goes into my thoughts on Tezuka’s portrayal of black people and the idea that Joe may have been a story seeing as his essay was written one year after he published a comic with a black soldier named Joe. All speculation though.

Felt* - ugh, typos

Neat*

I really love the little replica film pamphlets that are included. They’re such a near slice of history with all the ads.

Cult Epics is distributing a bunch of his movies for North America. They just announced a 4K of the Girl Who Leapt Through Time:

She’s iconic.

I can finally watch movies on my phone as they were designed to be watched.

Rankin/Bass already made one but couldn’t get the rights to the song/title.

Loved when Rami went full Looney Tunes

Theodore Rex starting Whoopie Goldberg 92 minutes

Just what you always wanted, a sonic dating simulator.

Same - would love an upgrade option

His follow up, an adaptation of the opera Bluebeard’s Castle, is an amazing thematic follow-up . It also has the gorgeous Powell and Pressburger imagery. The BFI finally did a modern release last year.