GKIDS announced on Thursday that it has licensed Masaaki Yuasa’s Inu-Oh, the musical anime feature film of Hideo Furukawa’s Heike Monogatari: Inu-Oh no Maki (Tales of the Heike: Inu-Oh) novel, for North American distribution.
The film is screening in the Work in Progress program at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival’s online event, which is running from June 15-30.
Through the songs, Inu-Oh mesmerizes his audiences on stage, and gradually begins to transform into someone of unequaled beauty.
Matsumoto is drafting the original character designs for Inu-Oh in his second collaboration with Yuasa, who directed the anime of Matsumoto’s Ping Pong manga.