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At 22 years old, Macoto Tezuka, the son of legendary manga artist and anime director Osamu Tezuka, was still a film-student who was yet to make his feature debut when he met musician Haruo Chicada, who had made a soundtrack; a soundtrack for a movie that didn’t even exist! Inspired by the record, Tezuka set out to adapt it into his first feature length film “The Legend of the Stardust Brothers”. Thirty-four years after its release, Third Window Films are set to release the film on home video with a brand new restoration and a fresh Director’s Cut of the film, in the process introducing a majority of the western as well as Japanese audience to the film.

“The Legend of the Stardust Brothers” is screening at San Diego Asian Film Festival (Sdaff)

The film begins with a stark black & white sequence in a futuristic nightclub where the host...

Check out them butt guns! The new Astro Boy trailer's come a long way since the rough-cut footage we saw at Comic-Con. Summit and Imagi Studios re-introduce Osamu Tezuka's beloved boy robot from his manga and anime series in high-tech gadgetry for 3-D justice. He'll be zooming into theaters Oct. 23. Toby (Freddie Highmore) definitely looks different with a rounder physique, and they've given him some new friends: a magenta-streaked, tough as bones gal pal, a giant cement mixer and a trashcan dog. Fans of the original series will notice the animators stuck to the essentials though—the aforementioned butt guns, Toby's original costume (which shows up later in the trailer), and the inclusion of main characters Dr. Tenma (Nic Cage) and Dr. Elefun (Bill Nighy). Is it just me, or does...

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