Fw: American movies remade

[mark schilling]

> > On Monday 02 June 2003 15:10, Brandon Martino wrote:
> >
> > > How often are American movies remade for a Japanese audience? All the
> films
> > > being remade for America recently got me to thinking which movies were
> > > remade for Japan/Asia? Please list any you can think of.
> >
Ishii Teruo remade Stanley Kramer's "The Defiant Ones" as "Abashiri
Bangaichi," though the film was not a straight rip but an amalgamation of
the Hollywood film and an original script.

Ishii also made "Juichinin no Gang" (Gang of Eleven, 1963), which was partly
inspired by "Ocean's Eleven," though the knock over target in the Ishii film
was, not Las Vegas casinos, but the payroll office of a tubing plant. Well,
it was Japan in the early sixties...

Mark Schilling
schill at gol.com