Atsuko Ishizuka Interview

By Andrew Osmond. This summer, I interviewed the director Atsuko Ishizuka in London about her new film Goodbye, Don Glees, which is screening at this year’s Scotland Loves Anime festival. It’s the story of three boys in a Japanese country village, who are falsely blamed for causing a forest fire. To clear their name, they […]
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