Questions re Manga-based Japanese Live Action Films

[Michael McCaskey]

Thank you. I just received the GTO DVD but haven't watched it yet. I'll look up Gokusen. I was sure my list was way too short.

Michael McCaskey 

----- Original Message -----
From: Maxim Makatchev <roboml at roboml.org>
Date: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 4:27 pm
Subject: Re: Questions re Manga-based Japanese Live Action Films

> There are two teacher-themed manga that made it into tv drama and 
> a 
> feature film:
> 
> GTO (feature+drama+anime)
> Gokusen (drama)
> 
> Maxim
> 
> Michael McCaskey wrote:
> > 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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