December 17, 2001: Yuko Sato’s animated version of the Ramayana is now being sold online at “source” above. Sato’s US$12 million film, originally released in the mid-1990s, won recognition at the Santa Clarita International Film Festival 2000, the Lucca Animation Film Festival in Italy 2000, the Toronto Film Festival and the Cardiff Animation Film Festival in the UK. The movie is described as “a 170-minute action packed, feature film that explores the animation style called “fusion” which consists of three different schools of animation: Manga from Japan, Disney from the USA and Ravi Varma from India. It is based on the Valmiki version of the Ramayana. It features narration by James Earl Jones and music by Academy Award winner Alan Howarth and Vanraj Bhatia.
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