Kickstarter project for new short film by veteran Keiichiro Kimura
Ian Wolf •
Veteran animation director Keiichiro Kimura has launched a Kickstarter project in order to create a new five-minute short anime movie.
Kimura, 76, describes Go! Samurai as: “a sketch animation (Sobyo-doga) where each and every frame will be hand-drawn in pencil by the legendary animator. It will consist of approximately 2000 frame works focused on a single samurai that fights for his life against 100 of his vicious enemies. It will be around 5 minutes duration (or longer depending on budget).”
At the time of writing this article, Go! Samurai has reached nearly $7,000 of its $10,000 target with 24 days to go.
Amongst his work, Kimura has work on many anime considered classics. These include the first magical girl series Sally the Witch, the original version of sci-fi series Cyborg 009, crime caper Lupin the Third and wrestling series Tiger Mask.
