Usagi Yojimbo short film..

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Suffice it to say, this is just a stepping stone to something bigger:

Stan Sakai’s much-admired comic book Usagi Yojimbo is being developed as a feature film. Upstart studio Lintika Films has been chosen to produce the project. They won the rights from Sakai based on this proof-of-concept short film called Usagi Yojimbo: The Last Request..

Lintika debuted the short last month at San Diego Comic-Con during the “30 Years of Usagi Yojimbo” panel. The director, Roel Robles, tells me that the short was made on a “super low” budget with the help of industry friends. “We are speaking with investors so hopefully it will get funded,” Robles tells Cartoon Brew. “I have something epic in mind. This short film was done on a shoestring budget so just imagine what we can do with an actual film budget. If we get the budget to make this film it will look 100x better.”

Watch it here:

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