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 way of manga, whereby ‘way’, as in the oriental disciplines, is meant to describe a path taken to transform a technique, that of the graphic novel storytelling, into a practice of personal improvement.
MANGA DO follows the suggestions of the lived reality, reconstructing the visual universe of the author. A red thread unifies the narration: the pages from his ‘Japanese Notebooks’ the book accompanies the images of the journey, establishing a dialogue between memory, document, and invention, which characterizes the style and work of Igort.

Il Kino