‘Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle’ Director Talks Crafting Challenging Scenes & Wild Worldwide Success

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• They also took home an honor of recognition for Best International Animation at the Critics’ Choice Awards AAPI celebration event.
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• Watch on Deadline DEADLINE: What was a non-negotiable for you in adapting this manga/anime series into a feature-length film trilogy?
• What was something you absolutely had to have?
• HARUO SOTOZAKI: For a franchise as big as Demon Slayer, where the underlying intellectual property [created by Koyoharu Gotouge] has been loved and read by so many people, the first step for me was to make sure there was alignment in our interpretation of the source material.