Questions re Manga-based Japanese Live Action Films
J.sharp
j.sharp at hpo.net
Wed Aug 16 06:03:46 EDT 2006
I think one can go on citing titles adapted from Manga until the cows come
home. Most Japanese films listed on the jmdb credit an original work
(gensaku) which they are adapted from - and just as many of these are from
comics as they are from books.
The question is what conclusions are you going to draw from this.
So far the suggestions have been predominantly made up of horror, gangster,
sci-fi and action movies, but manga's scope is far much wider than this.
The subject was actually the basis for a touring program around the uk
organised by the Japan Foundation earlier this year, and so I'd advise
taking a look at some of these titles to see that being derived from manga
source material doesnt necessarily have much bearing on a films look or
style.
(info no longer on JF website, so check Bristol Watershed instead:)
http://www.watershed.co.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Watershed.woa/wa/news?object=59
www.watershed.co.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Watershed.woa/wa/programme?object=37
Some other films worth taking into consideration are Teruo Ishii's Tsuge
Yoshiharu adaptations (can't remember title offhand, sorry, but in Mark
Schilling's contemporasy Japanese film book) and the hilarious Toei-funded,
European set production of LADY OSCAR, from the manga ROSE OF VERSAILLES,
directed by Jacques Demy and with Zombie Flesheaters star Katriona MacColl
has Oscar and EMMERDALE FARM actress and celebrated rock wife Patsy Kensitt
in her Birds Eye pea advert days as Oscar as a child.
Jasper
www.midnighteye.com
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Subject: Re: Questions re Manga-based Japanese Live Action Films
Date: 15/08/06 13:35
>
> It seems that there are indeed many Japanese manga-based live action
films, maybe enough for a course in itself. I wondered at first whether this
was a separate genre, and it really is.
>
> Has anyone written a book secifically about this yet?
>
> I wonder why there are not more US films like this--or are there many of
these I'm not aware of? I thought about V, but it's again about a costumed
figure, as many of the US ones seem to be.
>
> I also thought about some anime films like the remade Appleseed, based on
a manga original, where the computerized effects make it seem at times as if
the figures are almost live action.
>
> Michael McCaskey
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jim Harper <jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk>
> Date: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 4:48 pm
> Subject: Re: Questions re Manga-based Japanese Live Action Films
>
> > I think Ishii directed a sixth film, in 1994.
> >
> > Jim.
> >
> > "H. Boxberg" <kaijyutheater at boksi.fi> wrote:
> > The Angel Guts -series. Total of five films by Chusei Sone,
> > Noboru
> > Tanaka, Toshiharu Ikeda and Takashi Ishii, all based on the mangas
> > by Ishii.
> >
> > - Henri Boxberg
> >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Azumi
> > >
> > > Koi no mon
> > >
> > > Kozure okami
> > >
> > > Nana
> > >
> > > Onmyoji
> > >
> > > Sanchome no yuhi
> > >
> > > Salaryman Kintaro
> > >
> > > Shurayuki-hime
> > >
> > > Yokai dai senso
> > >
> > > 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?
> > >
> > > I'm not including anime based on manga, just live action films
> > derived from manga, not from anime..
> > >
> > > 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 Kankuro.
> >
> >
> >
> > http://www.flipsidemovies.com
> > http://jimharper.blogspot.com
> >
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