Questions re Manga-based Japanese Live Action Films

[alice massa]

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
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----- 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.
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> Azumi
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> Koi no mon
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> Kozure okami
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> Nana
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> Onmyoji
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> Sanchome no yuhi
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> Salaryman Kintaro
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> Shurayuki-hime
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> Yokai dai senso
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> 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?
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> I'm not including anime based on manga, just live action films derived 
> from manga, not from anime..
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> 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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