<div>I think Ishii directed a sixth film, in 1994.</div> <div> </div> <div>Jim.<BR><BR><B><I>"H. Boxberg" <kaijyutheater@boksi.fi></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">The Angel Guts -series. Total of five films by Chusei Sone, Noboru <BR>Tanaka, Toshiharu Ikeda and Takashi Ishii, all based on the mangas by Ishii.<BR><BR>- Henri Boxberg<BR><BR>> I have have been making up an inventory for my film course of major Japanese "live action" films that are based on original manga, but I'm sure I must have left some out. Can people help out and name some more of them? I'm certain I must be missing some very important ones in the list below.<BR>> <BR>> Azumi<BR>> <BR>> Koi no mon<BR>> <BR>> Kozure okami<BR>> <BR>> Nana<BR>> <BR>> Onmyoji<BR>> <BR>> Sanchome no yuhi<BR>> <BR>> Salaryman Kintaro<BR>> <BR>> Shurayuki-hime<BR>> <BR>>
Yokai dai senso<BR>> <BR>> The recent Hotaru no haka live action film goes back to the original text by Nosaka Akiyuki, and there's no manga version--there's Takahata's anime, and maybe there's a storyboard book by Takahata. Ashura-jo no hitomi is based on a play. Does Oshii's Red Spectacles count, since there are one or two related manga, in addition to the Jin-Roh anime?<BR>> <BR>> I'm not including anime based on manga, just live action films derived from manga, not from anime..<BR>> <BR>> Something else I've noticed is that it seems that most of the US "comics-based" live action movies are about various costumed fantasy figures, mostly "crime-fighters," such as Superman, Batman, Spider Man, et al. Yokai dai senso seems to have a few similarities to this US strain, but Miike's Zebraman simply seems to be totally the creation of the scenario writer, Kudo
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