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PRINCESS BLADE Director Shinsuke Sato Moving into Anime …
Posted by Todd Brown at 5:26am.
Posted in Film News , Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Asia.
Once my favorite animation house in Japan things have been relatively quiet on the Production IG front in recent days. Sure, they’ve been busy contracting out on a number of projects but the amount of original material they’ve been working on has dropped off and what they have been doing - with the obvious exception of Mamoru Oshii’s Sky Crawlers - hasn’t been of any great interest to me. But that changes with their announcement of two brand new feature film projects.
Up first is The Abandoned Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror, a children’s oriented fantasy film. IG are making a big deal over this one because it is the first feature to be developed using software developed by the company to convert 2D drawings into 3D animation - which sounds like an intriguing process as it should keep all the quirks and details of hand drawn animation intact - but I’m far more interested because it is to be directed by Shinsuke Sato, who directed the live action martial arts flick The Princess Blade a few years back. Anybody who’s seen that film can tell you that Sato’s style is very well suited to the anime world and I can’t wait to see what he comes up with.
Their other big upcoming project is another family-oriented fantasy film that does not appear to have a title yet but is being directed by Hiroyuki Okiura. Okiura, for his part, previously directed a little film called Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade that I happen to think is one of the greatest animated films ever made.
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M@rc 10/04/2008 @ 7:08am
Princess Blade was horrible IMO. Maybe animation suits him better.
ChevalierAguila 10/04/2008 @ 4:45pm
I second .
Brad 10/05/2008 @ 6:15pm
Sorry to break the trend but I’m a big fan of Princess Blade.
This guys’ been off the radar for quite awhile, so it’ll be great to see him working on another project.