Oga Kazuo Exhibition: Ghibli No Eshokunin - The One Who Painted
Totoros Forest (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Japan Version)

Product Description

From July 21 through September 10th, 2007, the Museum for Contemporary Art Tokyo held an exhibition honoring Oga Kazuo, the art director & background artist for many famed works from Japans Studio Ghibli. Over 600 works from the artist were on display, & numerous fans flocked to the one-of-a-kind exhibition celebrating the lush, gorgeous background artwork typifying many a work from Miyazaki Hayao & other Ghibli filmmakers. International fans of Oga & Studio Ghibli have not been left out, however. The Oga Kazuo Exhibition: Ghibli No Eshokunin
- The One Who Painted Totoros Forest DVD allows fans the opportunity to attend the exhibition, as well as watch interviews & testimonials with Ogas contemporaries & collaborators, all subtitled in English.

This special DVD features a slideshow of all 600 works on display at the exhibition; the 72-minute feature "e; Ghiblis Oga Kazuo, who painted Totoros woods"e;; & a 40-minute featurette containing interviews with director Takahata Isao, art scholar Tsuji Nobuo, Ghibli art department head Tanaka Naoya, & art director Kobayashi Shichiro. The DVD also contains a 20-minute feature detailing Oga Kazuos creative process, as he paints the cover for a 2005 art book collecting his paintings. For fans of both painted art & Ghibli Studios, the Oga Kazuo Exhibition represents an uncommon & fascinating glimpse into the mind of a master.