Questions re Manga-based Japanese Live Action Films

[H. Boxberg]

Oh yes, didn't remember that, it's called Red Flash. Thanks Jim.

- Henri

> 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.