Hoshikuzu Kyôdai No Densetsu (The Legend of the Stardust Brothers)

So, Osamu Tezuka is basically the godfather of modern manga, and arguably the greatest manga artists in history. I mean, his comics- from Astroboy to Buddha- are brilliant and influential. His storytelling techniques have been copied a million times over by pretty much everyone else, and he could pretty much do anything he wanted and …

A Letter to Momo

So there I was in the library, browsing DVD shelves like it was 1993, and my eyes stumble upon this little gem of a film I'd never heard of. Written and directed by Hiroyuki Okiura, it's as good as anything Studio Ghibli ever did (though it clearly owes a lot to those films thematically.) Even …