Manga Do, Igort e la via del Manga - Trailer
Directed by Domenico Distilo, 'Manga Do' is the journey of Igort, one of the most important Italian graphic novel authors, in the founding places of Japanese culture. The film takes the viewer on the manga's way, whereby 'way', as in the oriental disciplines, is to describe a path taken to transform a technique, that of the graphic novel storytelling, into a practice of improvement.
Igort travels with a photographer, a friend who's his guide: from Tokyo to Nagoya, then down along the Kii peninsula to Izumo, where they discover a thousand-year paper-making technique, and then Hiroshima, at the Peace Museum. From this fascinating journey and the variety of his routes, comes the intertwining of Igort's new book, the 'Japanese Notebooks / second volume' and the film 'Manga Do' which tells its genesis.