In 1985, Macoto Tezka (son of the great manga artist Osamu Tezuka) met musician and TV personality Haruo Chicada who had made a soundtrack to a movie which didn’t actually exist: The Legend of the Stardust Brothers. At the time Macoto was just 22 years old, a film-student with many short experimental films under his belt, but yet to make a feature-debut and of course had the pressure of the TEZUKA name. With Chicada as producer, Tezka then adapted this “fake soundtrack” into the real movie story of “The Stardust Brothers”, which became the exact definition of a cult film.
What The Film
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Director Makoto Tezuka
Year 1985
Duration
1h 40m
Language Japanese with English subtitles
Cast Shingo Kubota, Kan Takagi, Kiyohiko Ozaki