The feature-length of Hideo Furukawa’s Tales of the Heike: Inu-Oh, the anime Inu-Oh, is due later this month. In the final run-up to that release, ASMILK Ace has released a duo-preview-trailer.
The opening bit of this video shows Inu-Oh running through the streets; there are some credits and a trailer for the movie. It’s an unusual approach, but it works. It certainly leaves me wondering, in a good way, about the anime’s tone.
The movie will leave Asia and come to North America, France, Benelux and the UK via one studio and Latin America, Germany, the Middle East and Spain by others!
GKIDS, one of the companies in the fray, describe it;
Inu-Oh is born with unique physical characteristics, and the horrified adults cover every inch of his body with garments, including a mask on his face. One day, he meets a boy named Tomona, a blind biwa player, and as Tomona plays a delicate song of tangled fate, Inu-Oh discovers an incredible ability to dance.
Inu-Oh and Tomona become business partners and inseparable friends, using their creative gifts to survive on the margins of society, as song after song gain them notoriety and propel them to stardom. Through the songs, Inu-Oh mesmerizes his audiences on stage, and gradually begins to transform into someone of unequaled beauty. But why is Tomona blind? Why was Inu-Oh born with unique characteristics? It is a story about the friendship of Inu-Oh and Tomona, who dance and sing to get to the truth and break each other’s curse.
The rock band Queen Bee provides the talented Avu-chan to play Inu-oh, and the director is Yuasa. Yuasa credits include the bleak DEVILMAN crybaby and nearly as traumatic Japan Sinks: 2020. Hence my questions about the tone.
The anime competed in the Venice International Film festival and was the first 2d Japanese feature-length to do so.
Via Anime News Network.
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