The director of the film adaptation of ' Look Back ' , Kiyotaka
Oshiyama , has shared surprising details about the production process.
Oshiyama revealed that he was working on the film until yesterday, a day before
its anticipated release in Japan, and that he hasn't left the office in more
than two months.
In a recent interview, Oshiyama commented:
" I was drawing until noon yesterday. Then, I heard that there
was an event today, so I didn't have any clothes to wear, so I worked hard at
noon and at night to buy something. So everything is new »She
said, causing everyone to laugh. " Even the staff hasn't seen
the full movie yet ."
Reflecting on the arduous days of production,
Oshiyama stated: " They were extremely hard days. He felt like
he was doing a difficult triathlon. Every day was so exciting, and it's barely
over. In fact, it's still too early for it to be over, so I don't feel like
it's really over yet, so I thought that by watching everyone's movie today I
would finally feel like it's over ,” he said with a wry smile.
« I was drawing until yesterday afternoon, and I finished last
night. I stayed in the office all day for about two and a half months. Finally,
I went home yesterday and slept on my own futon. “I think I've accumulated
quite a bit of sleep debt ,” he commented with an exhausted look.
The animated adaptation of 'Look Back'
was made at Studio Durian, with Kiyotaka Oshiyama in charge of direction,
character design and even writing the scripts. Additionally,
as a character designer, he also had to work directly with the animators and
make frames himself. This is not about “exploitation”, but rather he
himself decided to work this way . However, it is also a reality that
other productions with much more staff still suffer from these types of
problems, being a constant problem within the anime industry from which more
and more productions with shorter delivery times are asked. .
Sinopsis of Look Back
Fourth-grade student Ayumu Fujino
regularly draws four-panel manga for her school newspaper and is praised for
having the best artwork in her class. One day, her teacher asks him to give one
of her manga spots in the school newspaper to a truant student named Kyomoto.
When Kyomoto's manga appears alongside Fujino's, she receives high praise for
her detailed illustrations, causing Fujino to become jealous.
Fujino refuses to be defeated by someone
who barely goes to school and is dedicated to learning how to create manga.
However, as time passes, his goal of eclipsing Kyomoto seems further and
further away, and Fujino, now in sixth grade, eventually gives up and stops
making manga. Graduation day arrives and Fujino is asked to give Kyomoto his graduation
certificate. By chance, the two end up meeting face to face, and their
unexpected meeting will end up having consequences far beyond what either of
them could predict.
Source: Oricon News
© Tatsuki Fujimoto/Shueisha © 2024 "Look
Back" Production Committee
