Questions re Manga-based Japanese Live Action Films

[Maxim Makatchev]

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.
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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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