Osamu Tezuka(1928-1989)

In January 1965, Tezuka received a letter from American film director Stanley Kubrick; Kubrick had watched Astro Boy (1963) and wanted to invite Tezuka to be the art director of his next movie, 2001: Odissea nello spazio (1968). Tezuka could not afford to leave his studio for a year to live in England, so he refused. Although he could not work on it, he loved the film, and would play its soundtrack at maximum volume in his studio to keep him awake during long nights of work.

My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death.