‘Manga Do. Igort and the way of manga ‘is 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 manga’s way, whereby ‘way’, as in the oriental disciplines, we want to describe a path taken to transform a technique, that of the graphic novel storytelling, into a practice of improvement. Igort travels with a photographer, a friend who’s his guide: from Tokyo to Nagoya, then down along the Kii peninsula to Izumo, where they discover a thousand-year paper-making technique, and then Hiroshima, at the Peace Museum. From this fascinating journey and the variety of his routes, comes the intertwining of Igort’s the new book, the ‘Japanese Notebooks / second volume’ and the film ‘Manga Do’ which tells its genesis.
