Creative Theory

There is one more thing I want to put down in writing. I considered three people my mentors. The first, needless to say, was Osamu Tezuka. The second was Junichi Ushiyama. The third was Shinobu Hashimoto. I wrote about Hashimoto in the second post on this blog, and I mentioned producer Ushiyama briefly in my first post about “Computopia.” Here, I want to write about what Ushiyama taught me about filmmaking — and one more important thing. ...

Lately, my memory for people’s names, dates, and numbers has been growing terribly hazy. Having eaten mainly fish since my youth, I wonder if acetylene-based microplastics have accumulated around my hippocampus and damaged the cells there. Reports say that the brains of severe dementia patients contain about two teaspoons of microplastics. It may already be too late, but I want to leave some notes as a personal record before things get any worse. ...