Makoto Tezuka

Makoto Tezuka (手塚眞, Tezuka Makoto, born 11 August 1961), also known as Macoto Tezka, is a Japanese film and anime director, born in Tokyo. He partially owns Tezuka Productions and helped in releasing the posthumous works of his father, Osamu Tezuka. He also runs his own company, Neontetra. He is married to manga artist Reiko Okano. Tezuka is a descendent of Hattori Hanzō,^[1] a famous ninja and samurai who faithfully served Tokugawa Ieyasu during the Sengoku period in Japan. He supervised Naoki Urasawa's Pluto manga series, as it adopts a story arc of his father's own manga Astro Boy.

Selected works

Film

Hakuchi (The Innocent) (starring Tadanobu Asano, Miyako Koda, and Reika Hashimoto, 1999)
Jikken eiga (Experimental Cinema) (starring Masatoshi Nagase and Reika Hashimoto, 1999)
Black Kiss (renamed from Synchronicity, starring Masanobu Andō, Kaori Kawamura, and Reika Hashimoto, 2004)
A Man, A Woman And A City (a series of short films for the John Foxx release, 2016)^[2]

Anime

Akuemon (OAV): Director
Black Jack (2004 TV): director
Black Jack 21 (TV): Director
Black Jack Special: The 4 Miracles of Life: Director
Black Jack: The Two Doctors Of Darkness (movie): Director
Dr. Pinoko no Mori no Bouken (movie): Supervisor
Pluto: Top Supervisor

PC game

Fin Fin on Teo the Magic Planet (OAV): Director

References

↑ "Birth", Osamu Permanent Exhibition, Tezuka .
↑ "Two John Foxx videos directed by Macoto Tezka". Ronnierocket.com. 3 December 2013. Retrieved 21 May 2018.

External links

(in Japanese) Official website
(in Japanese) Official Blog
Makoto Tezuka on IMDb
Makoto Tezuka at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

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[1] "Birth", Osamu Permanent Exhibition, Tezuka .

[2] "Two John Foxx videos directed by Macoto Tezka". Ronnierocket.com. 3 December 2013. Retrieved 21 May 2018.