Tatsumi (2011)
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 17
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 0
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Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 0
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Western viewers might liken it to Disney meets The Dark Knight.
Top CriticSingaporean director Eric Khoo's stylishly impressive homage to the mangaka, converting his memoir, A Drifting Life, into a cinematic work employing animation that is true to Tatsumi's original work.
It's potent stuff, delving into pornography, incest, murder and mutilation in the company of alienated men and unhappy, sometimes cruel women.
If the structure sometimes disrupts the story of his life, the strong lines and melancholy sensibility of the illustration form an anchor that keep the power of Tatsumi's work firmly in view.
If Khoo's film doesn't amount to more than its parts, more often than not those parts are vivid and arresting.
The overall impact is one of the art reflecting upon the artist, of characters chronicling the formation and maturation of their creator.
This Japanese language manga movie is a stunning tribute to the skills, life and short stories of Yoshihiro Tatsumi.
Engaging, entertaining and beautifully animated, Tatsumi is a treat for fans and is likely to make converts of newcomers, though it's more successful as a showcase for his stories than as a documentary or biopic.
The film artfully combines, though sometimes rather confusingly, scenes from Tatsumi's life story as told in his graphic autobiography...
[A]n animated Japanese-language ode to legendary gekiga artist Yoshiro Tatsumi... [A] provocative back-and-forth on the development of a creative mind and the stories that have sprung from it...
Highly recommended for the graphically inclined, worthwhile viewing for the curious, now check out the books.
The slightly slushy tone of celebration rather obtusely fails to engage with the nihilist, pessimist nature of Tatsumi's work. Anyway, an intriguing event.
It is loose in shape, but alluring in style and storytelling.
A eye-popping visual treat and a journey into the creative spirit.
A touching tribute interweaves with tough storytelling in Eric Khoo's poignant portmanteau riff on Japanese graphic artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi's works.
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