Questions re Manga-based Japanese Live Action Films

[M Arnold]

There's also Wakamatsu Koji's Kisu yori kantan (1989) and its sequel (1991), 
based on the comic by Ishizaka Kei, who was once an assistant at Tezuka 
Productions, also the Bebop High School series (1985-), Somai Shinji's Tonda 
kappuru (1980), and there are a couple of Golgo 13 films, one with Ken-san 
that was filmed by Toei in Iran in the early 1970s. The recent Rabu kon, 
Hachimitsu to kuroba, Touch, and Rafu are all manga gensaku, and I think 
there's a new Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro around the corner. Shochiku's Tsuri baka 
nisshi (1988-) is also based on comics, and there are live action versions 
of Mezon Ikkoku (1985?) and Shirato Sanpei's Watari (1966), and the list 
goes on and on . . .

From: "Michael McCaskey" <mccaskem at georgetown.edu>
> Has anyone written a book secifically about this yet?


It's not a book, but there is an old issue of Image Forum with an article on 
live action film adaptations of comic books/strips. It contains a long list 
that stretches back to the 1920s, I believe, with dozens of entries. I have 
a copy but it's on a boat somewhere on the Pacific now, so I won't be able 
to check it for a couple of months.

Michael Arnold