The director is best known for his anime adaptation works of Tomihiko Morimi’s The Tatami Galaxy comedy novel in 2010 and Taiyo Matsumoto’s Ping Pong sports manga in 2014.
Yuasa’s own company Science SARU works on anime production. in 1997 as the theme song for the film.
It is confirmed today that 51-year-old anime director Masaaki Yuasa’s first original feature film Yoake Tsugeru Lu no Uta (Lu’s Song that Announces The Break of Dawn)/Lu Over The Wall is slated for a release in Japan on May 19, 2017.