Tezuka’s Barbara
Year: 2019Certificate: 18
- Director:
- Macoto Tezuka
- Cast:
- Gorô Inagaki, Fumi Nikaidô, Kiyohiko Shibukawa
- Running Time:
- 100 mins
- Language:
- Japanese
- English Subtitles:
- Yes
- Country of Origin:
- Germany, Japan, United Kingdom
- Genre(s):
- Film, Mystery
- Formats:
Barbara is an adult-orientated fantasy tale filled with love and the occult from Osamu Tezuka’s reimagining of “The Tales of Hoffmann”. Its story deals with the erotic and bizarre experiences of a famous novelist called Yosuke Mikura whose life is tossed upside down by a mysterious girl named “Barbara”.
The controversial story, dealing with various taboos such as forbidden love, mystery, art, Eros, scandal and occultism, was said to have been impossible to be cinematized at the time of its original publication, but was made into a live-action film for the 90th Anniversary of Osamu Tezuka’s birth by his son Macoto Tezka