Takashi Masunaga

The legend, according to Mockbusters.tv

Takashi Masunaga grasped what studios spend fortunes forgetting: the monster you never show is the monster that never stops haunting you. Trained in the sacred creed of "we shoot it this afternoon or it stays a dream," he delivered Pocahontas, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Jungle Book and Leo the Lion long before Hollywood mailed itself the same ideas. He shoots in natural light only — midnight scenes filmed at two in the afternoon, and audiences simply believe. Cannes has never mentioned him. Such silence can only be reverence.

A portrait from the Mockbusters.tv satirical universe: humorous praise, not a factual biography.