Tatsumi: Godfather of alternative manga is reborn on film
Manga artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi has always enjoyed a certain level of fame in his home country, where he's known as the originator of gekiga, a hard-boiled style of manga from the 1960s-'70s. Overseas, however, it's only since 2009 that his reputation has risen meteorically, ...
Tatsumi: 'Alternative noir histories from Japan's postwar period'
The stories of comic-book artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi — an originator of the gekiga (literally, "dramatic pictures") style — reach the screen in this intriguing compilation film by Singaporean director Eric Khoo. In "Hell," a photographer finds postwar fame with a poignant shot he took of ...
Manga: Gekiga capture the underbelly of ’70s Japan
"I don't know much about manga but I know what I like" could well be the title of this review. Despite the urgings of enthusiastic friends ever since the 1970s, I sedulously avoided reading works in this genre.
