Cinema
I recently saw the adaptation of the anime Rurouni Kenshin to a live-action movie and I found it fabulous! Visually speaking the movie is impressive; while at the same time its plot is very entertaining. Maybe one of its problems is that it tries to be too faithfull to the anime and it assumes that [...]
In many Japanese movie theaters, just before the movie starts, the following video is shown. It explains that uploading/downloading movies to/from the Internet and recording with a camera inside a theater are crimes punished by law. No More “Eiga dorobou”; “Eiga dorobou” means “steal movies”:
Azumi is a 2003 Japanese movie directed by Ryuhei Kitamura. The action in this movie takes place right after the great Sekigahara battle. Sekigahara battle is one of the most prominent events in Japanese history. It took place on September 15, 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu’s forces defeated shogun (governor) Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s men. From that battle [...]
Confessions (告白) by Tetsuya Nakashima was the Japanese movie selected as the entry for the Best Foreign Language Film of this year. The movie is based on a novel by Kanae Minato, which was one the most sold books in Japan in 2008. I hadn’t seen the movie until my brother recommended it to me [...]
Some months ago we already knew that a live-action movie based on the manga film Akira was being made. On that time I said: “at least let’s hope it’s not as bad as the Hollywood adaptation of Dragon Ball…”. According to the latests news it seems that the movie is not going to be very [...]
The project to make a live-action Akira movie is progressing well. The director will be Albert Hugh (one of his last movies was The Book of Eli) and the screenwriter will be Albert Torres. The movie will be based on the first three volumes of the manga, and in the future maybe there will be [...]
New movies are usually released in theaters in Japan several months after the release in United States and Europe; the same thing happens with DVD and Blu-ray versions. However, this didn’t happen with Avatar, and we already have it in DVD as well as in Blu-ray. To promote the release some Bic Camera employees were [...]
