Questions re Manga-based Japanese Live Action Films

[Michael McCaskey]

Thank you very much. I think those are all major.

Michael McCaskey  

----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Harper <jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 4:21 pm
Subject: Re: Questions re Manga-based Japanese Live Action Films

> There are various Junji Ito adaptations:
>   
>  The Tomie series (seven films, one comprised of 3 TV episodes)
>  Uzumaki
>  Shibito no Koiwazurai (recently released in the US as 'Love 
> Ghost', bootlegged as 'Lovesick Dead')
>  Kakashi
>  Oshikiri 
>   
>  I don't know whether you'd consider them 'major', however. There 
> are also a large number of made-for-TV adaptations of his work.
>   
>  Jim.
> 
> Michael McCaskey <mccaskem at georgetown.edu> 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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