Questions re Manga-based Japanese Live Action Films

[Michael McCaskey]

Thank you, especially for Blue Spring. It turns out that Matsuda Ryuhei is in Blue Spring, as well as in Shibito no koiwazurai, Nana, and Koi no mon, and perhaps even more live action manga movies.

Michael McCaskey

----- Original Message -----
From: alice massa <kingyo02 at hotmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 4:24 pm
Subject: Re: Questions re Manga-based Japanese Live Action Films

> Just a few that come to my mind...
> 
> Ichi the Killer and MPD Psycho (Miike)
> Uzumaki (Iguchinski)
> Tomie (the series)
> Blue Spring (Toyoda Toshiaki)
> 
> ..there must be lots...
> 
> alice massa
> www.neoneiga.it
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael McCaskey" <mccaskem at georgetown.edu>
> To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 10:14 PM
> Subject: Questions re Manga-based Japanese Live Action Films
> 
> 
> >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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 
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