The breakthrough … Goldorak screened on French TV in the 1970s. Featuring the eponymous Swiss army knife of a transforming robot, it quickly become a phenomenon, getting its own Paris Match cover, and opened the door for a deluge of anime to hit French children’s TV. After a few unsuccessful attempts to introduce anime to France in the early 1970s, the arrival in 1978 of mecha (ie robot) cartoon Goldorak on A2, one of the country’s three public TV stations, was the breakthrough. This time, instead of Mt Fuji, boozy geishas and melancholic peasants, it was giant robots, Corgi bounty-hunters and tumorous apocalyptic psychics. The limpid animation helps it was drawn over a live-action version, inspired by the harder-edged Japanese movements that fly in the face of Disney fluidity.įöldes is at the arthouse end of the second coming of Japanese pop culture in France, which began in the late 1970s. Choosing these parts “like delicious cakes in a patisserie”, Földes blends them into an existential spiral that is somehow still perfectly Murakamian in its palette-cleansing effect. So Földes freestyled his way through Murakami, picking the material that chimed : story threads about a drifting Tokyo salaryman whose wife leaves him “because living with you is like living with a chunk of air” her freaky hotel encounter years earlier a banker’s alliance with a talking frog against the giant subterranean, earthquaking-causing worm. The story goes from here to there, through different moments of emotion. Here, everything is very structured, with a beginning and end. “It’s more contemporary, less structured. “I loved the fact the style of storytelling was so different to the west,” says the director. A beguiling mashup of six Haruki Murakami short stories set in the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman emerged foremost from Földes’s own first contact with Japanese literature as a teenager. Anime and manga are a worldwide cultural force but nowhere more so than France – an unbelievable 55% of comics sold there in 2021 were manga, according to consumer research body GfK. The new animation Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, by France-based animator Pierre Földes, shows that the French love affair with Japanese visual arts is still throbbing. Upon seeing Katsushika Hokusai’ s The Great Wave Off Kanagawa – a supposed inspiration for his own The Starry Night – he raved to his brother Theo in a letter: “The waves are claws, the boat is caught in them, you can feel it.” He went to the south of France hoping to encounter the same radiant nature and spiritual freshness that figured in his east-Asian fantasia. Japanese art deeply influenced his work, from his flattening of perspective to his bold lines.
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With the 19th-century japonisme craze in full swing, he coveted ukiyo-e woodblock prints like modern-day collectors hoard rare manga.
Y ou might say that Vincent van Gogh was one of the first Japanese pop-culture otaku (geeks) in Europe.
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