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00:00 His passion?
00:01 Cinema.
00:02 Where he made his career?
00:04 Animation.
00:06 At 83, the Japanese Rintaro Albator Metropolis finally settled on his father's status of this discipline,
00:14 kissed by chance more than 60 years ago.
00:16 Shigeyuki Hayashi, by his real name, therefore wanted to tell the story of a misunderstood to the happy denouement.
00:22 This misunderstanding, it's his life, that he delivers to the French-speaking public in the form of a comic published at Kanadargo in late January.
00:30 "My life in 24 frames per second" is, again, a contrary exercise, the initial project was to make a film,
00:37 entrusted to the AFP this energetic man with a sparkling look.
00:40 A feature film not only on his life but also, and perhaps especially, on the history of Japanese animation, today essential.
00:48 Because there was a long time before the One Piece or Naruto phenomena.
00:51 This before takes the names of Astro Boy, King Leo, whose story has probably inspired the Lion King of Disney,
00:58 or the series with the planetary retentions Albator, which made Rintaro a star.
01:03 Composed of about forty episodes, it has given birth to several generations of children.
01:07 Anchored in the XXXth century, it tells the story of a humanity threatened by an extraterrestrial race, the Sylvidres.
01:14 The only one to take seriously the extent of the threat is none other than Captain Albator.
01:19 Metropolis?
01:21 An accomplishment?
01:24 Rintaro made his debut as a director within the Musi studio, launched by the manga master, Osamu Tezuka, 1928 to 1989.
01:32 This is where he adapts the Astro Boy series and King Leo.
01:36 The success is immediate.
01:38 It is the birth of animation in Japan.
01:41 An inseparable genre from another flagship product of Japanese culture, the manga.
01:45 "It is because there are manga that there are series and animated films", Rintaro emphasizes.
01:51 "Immediately, animation is thought of as a draft of the manga", he insists.
01:55 Thanks to his productions at the Musi studio, he made a name for himself.
01:59 In 1979, he directed his first feature film, Galaxy Express 999, also based on a manga.
02:07 Twenty years later, his film Metropolis, another adaptation of Tezuka to which he dedicated an animated series in 1989,
02:15 is a culmination for this man who dreams of cinema and who found himself in animation by chance.
02:21 "When I finished + Metropolis +, I felt like I had accomplished my mission.
02:25 I could have stopped there and closed the shop", he says.
02:29 "Conclusion because I understood, at least part of it, what cinema meant".
02:34 This quest today goes through the realization of films on figures of the 7th Japanese art.
02:39 Less than a year ago, he made a short film in tribute to the filmmaker Sadao Yamanaka, 1909 to 1938.
02:46 His last work?
02:49 His name is, and will remain, associated with that of animation, of which he is considered one of the founding fathers.
02:55 "If I am considered a father of Japanese animation, it is absolutely not my doing but it suits me", he says with malice.
03:02 And to add, without resentment, the opportunities, they were in animation for me.
03:08 Not elsewhere.
03:10 As such, what view does he have on the evolution of the discipline, today indissociable from the universe of video games?
03:18 Japanese society, as a whole, is very influenced by video games.
03:22 It is not limited to animation, he notes.
03:26 "For me, cinema reflects the news of the time and the one in which we live and is dominated by technology and video games.
03:33 I have no opinion beyond this observation".
03:36 At 83, Rintaro refuses to say if this autobiographical comic will be his last work.
03:43 His greatest goal, now, is to earn enough money to be able to buy a space in the Montparnasse cemetery, in Paris, notes the editorial.
03:51 "It seems that it is very expensive, you know, laugh".