Madhouse introduces new movie TIBETAN DOG at Annecy
Tadashi Sudo [Anime! Anime!]
June 18, 2009
At Annecy International Animation Film Festival held in Annecy, France, Japanese anime production company Madhouse introduced its new animated film scheduled to be released after 2010.
TIBETAN DOG’s name has appeared as a theater movie in production only in Madhouse’s company profile in Japan before. However, the work’s detailed information had been a secret except it’s a co-production with China Film Group. At Annecy, finally the details about TIBETAN DOG, such as characters, story settings, theme, and outline, were revealed and it turned out that Annecy International Animation Film Festival became the first information release of the film to the public.
TIBETAN DOG based on a million sold novel in China is a movie that depicts beauty of the nature in Tibet and strength, largeness and kindness of the Tibetan Dog which is the original species of large dogs. With that as a background setting, the movie is about a boy who is from a city and suddenly gets to live in Tibet and how he grows up.
It got special attention that famous manga artist Naoki Urasawa participated in character creating. Director Kojima has been involved in making a multiple number of Urasawa’s manga titles, such as MONSTER, and MASTER KEATON, into animation, so that Urasawa participated this time because of that.
This is the first time that Urasawa cooperates in creating characters for others except from his own titles. The characters shown at Annecy were impressive that the good nature of the children in the movie was blended into character designs that had the distinguish reality of Urasawa’s work.
The release of the movie seems after 2010. Madhouse is releasing a bunch of theater animated films, such as SUMMER WARS, MAIMAI SHINKO TO SENNEN NO MAHO, NAYONAYO PENGUIN, and RED LINE. TIBETAN DOG is the project in the next term and it shows the fact that Madhouse’s productive activity will not stop and continue.
-Related site
Annecy International Animation Film Festival http://www.annecy.org/home/index.php?Page_ID=2
Madhouse http://www.madhouse.co.jp/
June 18, 2009
At Annecy International Animation Film Festival held in Annecy, France, Japanese anime production company Madhouse introduced its new animated film scheduled to be released after 2010.
TIBETAN DOG’s name has appeared as a theater movie in production only in Madhouse’s company profile in Japan before. However, the work’s detailed information had been a secret except it’s a co-production with China Film Group. At Annecy, finally the details about TIBETAN DOG, such as characters, story settings, theme, and outline, were revealed and it turned out that Annecy International Animation Film Festival became the first information release of the film to the public.
TIBETAN DOG based on a million sold novel in China is a movie that depicts beauty of the nature in Tibet and strength, largeness and kindness of the Tibetan Dog which is the original species of large dogs. With that as a background setting, the movie is about a boy who is from a city and suddenly gets to live in Tibet and how he grows up.
It got special attention that famous manga artist Naoki Urasawa participated in character creating. Director Kojima has been involved in making a multiple number of Urasawa’s manga titles, such as MONSTER, and MASTER KEATON, into animation, so that Urasawa participated this time because of that.
This is the first time that Urasawa cooperates in creating characters for others except from his own titles. The characters shown at Annecy were impressive that the good nature of the children in the movie was blended into character designs that had the distinguish reality of Urasawa’s work.
The release of the movie seems after 2010. Madhouse is releasing a bunch of theater animated films, such as SUMMER WARS, MAIMAI SHINKO TO SENNEN NO MAHO, NAYONAYO PENGUIN, and RED LINE. TIBETAN DOG is the project in the next term and it shows the fact that Madhouse’s productive activity will not stop and continue.
-Related site
Annecy International Animation Film Festival http://www.annecy.org/home/index.php?Page_ID=2
Madhouse http://www.madhouse.co.jp/
