Masaaki Yuasa: Five Films John McTiernan the design artists often made

the design artists often made their sketches using their nondrawing hand

one which will strike fear into the hearts of men who do wrong

who intervenes in characteristically explosive fashion to defend a remote mountain town from occupying Japanese forces

while brutally butchering anyone who happens to get in the way

Masaaki Yuasa: Five Films John McTiernan the design artists often madeWidely regarded as one of the most imaginative and influential filmmakers working in animation, Masaaki Yuasa's energetic style has been compared to Tex Avery and Max Fleischer. He is one of contemporary anime's most prolific auteurs and has lent his humor and dynamism to genres as diverse as psychedelic thrillers, transcendent rock operas and sweetly subversive teen romances. This set includes Masaaki Yuasa's five celebrated feature films Mind Game