COMMENT BY DIRECTOR KAZUHIRO FURUHASHI
When Sunrise producer Naohiro Ogata invited me to discuss directing "Mobile Suit Gundam UC," it felt not unlike the time of a fateful encounter. 31 years earlier, when I called on Naoyuki Kato, who comes from my home town, for career advice, we discussed the original "Mobile Suit Gundam." It was broadcast the following year when I went to Tokyo. Over the next thirty years the nature of my career changed until last year it became possible for me to create something that I could call my life's work, marking the end of that phase, and I couldn't ask for a better title on which to make a new start.
Old as I am, I’m not really familiar with the recent Gundam series. But when I learned that the project goal was to create something along the lines of the original "Mobile Suit Gundam" and aimed at older audiences, I felt that, if I were working with an excellent staff, I would be able to pull it off. I look forward to collaborating with novelist Harutoshi Fukui as I bring you "Mobile Suit Gundam UC" in the form of a filmed work.
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