[1] Tezuka is a descendant of Hattori Hanzō,[5] a ninja and samurai who served Tokugawa Ieyasu during the Sengoku period in Japan.
He supervised Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki's Pluto manga series, as it adapts a story arc of his father's own Astro Boy.
Nagisa Oshima, who was one of the juries at the festival, and other notable people from the film industry praised Macoto's work.
While still in the university, Makoto directed his first feature-length film "The Legend of the Stardust Brothers" in 1985[4] for theatrical release, in partnership with musician Haruo Chikada.
Despite gameplay footage being shown at Nintendo Space World 1996 and was appointed a summer 1998 release, the game wound up cancelled due to development issues.
The film toured in South Korea, various countries in Latin America, in Europe including France, and in Bahrain as well.
In 2012, as part of rehabilitation support, Makoto directed a documentary film "Ogatsu-Revival of the Houin Kagura Tradition"(produced by national federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan).
The theme of the film is on the cultural tradition of the area affected by the great East Japan earthquake of 11 March 2011.