kasahara & fukasaku

[Stephen Cremin]

Wasn't ZIPANG developed into a computer game with the help of Hayashi Kaizo?  I also remember seeing an EKO EKO AZARAKU Playstation game on sale in the late 1990s but don't know whether Sato was involved in that.  There is at least one case of a game designer going into movies (apart from FINAL FANTASY), but can't remember the name or title right now.

Stephen


On Tuesday, Dec 17, 2002, at 02:23AM, Roland Domenig <roland.domenig at univie.ac.at> wrote:

>the papers reported the death of kasahara kazuo, the screenplay writer of
>the JINGI NAKI TATAKAI series and many other famous yakuza films. he was 75.
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>in 1954 kasahara entered the advertising section of the toei-studios, but
>soon switched position and became an important scriptwriter. at first he
>wrote scripts for films featuring singer-actress misora hibari, later he
>wrote the popular NIHON NINKYO-DEN series for makino masahiro and
>specialized in yakuza-films. most successful were his scripts for fukasaku
>kinji's famous JINGI NAKI TATAKAI series. from 1980 on he wrote several
>historical dramas such as NIHAYAKUSAN KOCHI (masuda toshio), 226 (gosha
>hideo), RONINGAI (kuroki kazuo) and FUKAZAWA YUKICHI (sawai shinichiro). his
>last scripts were for the four-part anime-series SANGOKUSHI.
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>apropos fukasaku kinji: papers reported that yesterday he started shooting
>his next and last film BATTLE ROYALE 2. Moreover, last week sony launched
>its latest playstation horror game CLOCKTOWER 3 that was developed by
>fukasaku. 
>are there many other games that were drafted by japanese filmmakers?
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>roland domenig
>institute of japanese studies
>vienna university
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