Makoto Tezuka

Makoto Tezuka (手塚 眞, Tezuka Makoto, born 11 August 1961),[1] officially romanized as Macoto Tezka,[2][3][4] is a Japanese film and anime director, born in Tokyo. He fashions himself as a visualist and is involved in the creation of moving images beyond film and animation. He partially owns Tezuka Productions and helped in releasing the posthumous works of his father, Osamu Tezuka.[4]

Tezuka runs his own company, Neontetra. He is a representative of board of directors for Tezuka Osamu Cultural Foundation, a producer and director of Memorial Hall for Tezuka Osamu, a city ambassador to the city of Takarazuka in Hyogo prefecture, a member of the examination board for the Proficiency in Intellectual Property Management, and a board member of Japan Image Council.

Tezuka teaches filmmaking at Tokyo University of Technology and the Image Forum in Tokyo. He is married to manga artist Reiko Okano.[1] Tezuka is a descendant of Hattori Hanzō,[5] a ninja and samurai who served Tokugawa Ieyasu during the Sengoku period in Japan. He supervised Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki's Pluto manga series, as it adapts a story arc of his father's own Astro Boy.[3]

  1. ^ a b "Makoto Tezuka". Anime News Network. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Macoto Tezka". Neontetra. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Naoki Urasawa's Monster Manga Series Returns to Print in New Perfect Edition Release from Viz Media". Anime News Network. 25 June 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  4. ^ a b Schilling, Mark (21 October 2019). "Tokyo Film Festival: Tezuka Probes Past and Present in 'Barbara'". Variety. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
  5. ^ "Birth", Osamu Permanent Exhibition, Tezuka, archived from the original on 24 September 2016, retrieved 16 November 2016.