Osamu Tezuka - Broken Down Film (1985)

[ickybonesss]

Sorry but isn't this film to bright? I saw this in class and it was much more darker.

[Dragonrider1227]

does this feel like a Tex Avery cartoon to anyone else?

[bledahmetal]

Tezuka was a Genius!

[MicahBuzan]

genius

[Aicirt8]

3:24 Lol, took me a sec to get what was going on XD

[Tiramees]

The way the cowboy hid from the other was very clever.

The ending was hilarious.

The colour part was beautiful!

[hiyaanimation]

Tezuka shows his love for Max Fleischer :-D Awesome.

[pmaestro]

breaking the fourth wall isn't genius, it's cliche. even in 1985. tezuka did a great job by completing this short, but it's getting overhyped because of his name. if this had been done by someone relatively obscure, most of these comments would read differently. astro boy was awesome. this is ok. tezuka did great work, but it's nothing you couldn't do yourself if you sat down and put in some effort.

[Ryoku75]

@pmaestro Good points, though breaking the 3th wall in the 80's was a rarety, but its nothing neccesarily innovative (that word gets tossed around too much) or genius.

[Aicirt8]

@pmaestro I mostly agree, breaking the 4th wall isn't anything new, even back when this short was made. It wasn't genius, but it was still very clever and dang funny. But I think you're right, it is a little overhyped because of his name, but that's how lots of things are.

As for anyone being able to do something like this, I disagree. It isn't amazing like some of his other work, but it is fun and entertaining and still carries the special unique Osamu touch that most of his other works have.

[8adamsworld8]

Osama Tezuka is so awesome! at the end of this video, it shows a Japanese character that is actually Tezuka's pen name or something.

[RetroToledo]

@8adamsworld8 It's actually the logo to "Mushi Productions", but I wouldn't be surprised if he used it in other places as well.

[yuki5835]

早送り・巻き戻しが自由自在！

[KieferSkunk]

It's amazing the ability Tezuka had to take an idea and run with it.  This is an amazing piece of work.

[angelfox123456]

Damn.....Tezuka's genius is just.....astonishing.

I love how the characters actually acknowledge and interact with the low quality of the 'film'.

[Flamingrivers]

Wow, this is amazing

[TonisAndreasHallaste]

The genius had range.

[japanfan94]

oh i get it. it suposed to have crappy animation. well in that case teeee heee

[headmasteralucard]

yes, it aaaaall makes sense now <.<

[headmasteralucard]

that was just funny XD

[wakuwalt7]

looks really nice...

[KINOKOYAMILUST69]

muy bueno, mucha creatividad, juega mucho con los elementos, los hace parte "de" toda la aimación, XD

[killbill402]

A good short movie. I haven't heard about Osamu Tezuka before now.

[MegaGameNWatch]

He's the creator of Astro Boy.

[Huneiyue]

Tezuka-dono never stops of working O¬OU

In Heaven he's doing manga for Buddha ;)

[tetsuwan81]

hahahahhahhaha excelente video gracias por subirlo

saludos desde mexico

[LordlyJeremy]

What was the deal with the guy breaking a piano with an axe?

[selfhatredcreep]

he looks like jack from lost

[TheEnc24]

jajaja XD

[adokarm]

Princess Leia is dancing with a cowboy, XD!

[deathspeakavailabili]

awesome, but i was expecting a "teh edn" at the end

[eltueny]

i thinking k es muy buena

[OSuKaRuTV]

¡valla asco de pelicula! ¡quiero que me devuelvan el dinero! XD

aunque, ciertamente el personaje principal se da cuenta yhace buen uso de los fallos de la pelicula

¡Tezuka es genial!XD

[T3T3T3S9]

fantastico! muchas gracias!

[akenaton97]

EL DIOS DEL MANGA

[Grouchy2day]

The majority of the soundtrack is from the King Oliver Jazz Band recording of "Snake Rag" done for Okeh Records in June 1923. They even left banjo player Bill Johnson's vocal break on the soundtrack! I don't know how the heck Tezuka's people managed to make the recording sound the way it does in the film. The original record is an octave higher and of course you hear 2 cornets, clarinet, trombone, banjo, piano and cymbals. And the film itself is absolutely remarkable!

[wnsinapellido]

Osamu Tezuka es el mejor no hay duda

[GNGfan]

Excellent!

[Jupiterdance]

Great work! Nothing more to say about...

[jonnyroasta]

THAT WAS AWESUM! I had no idea he did this.

WOOO that was tight.

[MasterGojo]

Osamu Tezuka...

The God of Manga

[VideoJunkei]

I saw this at an animation festival in the mid '80s the "spike n' mike" festival would be at the U of W each year, I went to 8 of them.

[siukong]

Is there a significance about the part where they become coloured and start ballroom dancing? Is this alluding to something I should know about?

[freshflapjax]

its mocking the old animations from the early 1900's w/all the lines/scratches and other film interference... except it was actually made in the 80's... and when they turn color and it gets all nice and new looking in their dream, it is like what animation is normally like during the time it was made... it is supposed to be cute and funny.

[crazyscott46321]

awesome

[fromthesidelines]

The music Tezuka used is an old "jass" standard called "Weeping Willie". He knew what time period he was satirizing- especially when you know the fact that his favorite American cartoons he saw when growing up {besides Disney's} was Max Fleischer's Betty Boop and Popeye shorts.

[KeijiKG]

I thought it was Ragtime music.

[GolumTR]

The line between Ragtime and early jazz was pretty loose. Jelly Roll Morton always claimed Buddy Bolden played ragtime (in line with his claims to have invented Jazz), but Mr. Bolden's other contemporaries claimed it was full Jazz. Oddly enough, most of Mr. Morton's other reminisces have been found to be true. The difference is probably what one define's as jazz

[mage211]

I loved it.

[diddymuck]

Haw! One terrific piece of work!

[TheKatamariGroup]

Osamu Tezuka- one of the greatest minds who evered lived. It's a shame that he's so un-appriciated in the west.

[valpster]

@ SatoshiDaate

The man has been dead for over 10 years now..

[SatoshiDaate]

I know.. sad is n't it.. people don ' t know about him...

[SatoshiDaate]

I am pretty sure this is not in 1985...

[eatpolythene]

It actually is. Its made to look like an 1880's cartoon.

[BobHershey]

Osamu Tezuka was the godfather of the entire japanese anime and manda industry...but he felt trapped by the very standards and styles he helped establish. Experimental films like this helped him explore other styles of animation.

"Broken Down Film" was designed to look like a decades-old film in the Fleischer animation style...not only does the hero have to fight the bad guy, but he also had to fight against the poor quality of the film he's in!

[Afrochapina]

lmao

[ApacheMan2K]

talk about a homage...and a parody! the technical jokes are oh, so true with the way old films were made back in the 1920s and 1930s.

[TKGB2006]

Broken down? Got that right. OI!

[piratemuffin]

This is so great, there's so many cute parts that make me smile.

[Redracat]

XDDD Entertaining.

Reminds me of something from Chuck Jones or something along the lines of America's old cartoons.

Another reason I love Tezuka's style.