Live Action Anime

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We’re back with another podcast chock full of goodies.  Today, Thrash Til Death joins me as we talk about a lot of different anime and manga adaptations including Astro Boy and Assault Girls, and we also get into some discussion on DragonBall: Evolution’s budget, and more speculation on our other favorite anime going live action.  [...]

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Here’s the first teaser for Yoshihiro Nakamura‘s Golden Slumber, yet another film adaptation of a Kotaro Isaka novel. Nakamura also adapted Isaka’s “The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker” in 2007 and “Fish Story” in 2009.  The teaser can be found HERE.

Plot: During a parade in Sendai City for Sadayoshi [...]

A Trailer for the upcoming live action adaptation of Go Nagai’s Abashiri Ikka (The Abashiri Family) has been posted online.

Set in the near future, the story centers around a family of vicious gangsters who live within an area of Japan not governed by laws called Bangaichi. Kikunosuke Abashiri (Erika Tonooka) is now attending Paradise Academy, [...]

Japanese publisher, Shonengahosha, has revealed the live action film trailer for Takashi Sano’s, Iketeru Futari, a romantic comedy manga through its website with a streaming trailer which can be found HERE. (Click on the Movie icon to see trailer)

The plot revolves around Kyosuke Saji, an ordinary teenage boy who adores a girl named Akira Koizumi, [...]

Based on a manga by Hiroshi Muto, Kyo kara Hitman stars actor, musician, and “Mecha-Mecha Iketeru!” regular Shinji Takeda as an ordinary salaryman named Tokichi Inaba who inadvertently becomes involved in the death of a legendary hitman. Facing bankruptcy and saddled with a 35-year mortgage, Inaba is coerced into becoming a hitman himself by [...]

The finale of director Yukihiko Tsutsumi’s 20th Century Boys trilogy premieres today in both San Francisco and Japan.

So if you’re in San Francisco, head on over to the Viz Cinema inside the San Francisco’s New People Cultural Entertainment Center.  The film will be shown in the theater for a special one week engagement, and will [...]

James Marsters has revealed that the actual budget that 20th Century Fox used to make the live action adaptation of Dragonball, Dragonball Evolution, was only $30 million. Speculation about the films budget ranged from $120 million to $45 million.
Despite the poor reception of the film around the world it appears that the movie actually was [...]

A Mature Comedy film from the creator of DevilMan, Mazinger Z, Cutey Honey
Based on the 70’s hit manga, the film will revolve around the Abashiri’s a violent crime family whose deepest secret is that their youngest son and strongest family member is actually a female. Erika Tono-Oka will star as Kikunosuke, the daughter who attempts [...]

The official website has been launched for a (currently filming) live action adaptation of Saori Oguri’s autobiographical manga, Darling wa Gaikokujin, (My Darling is a Foreigner). Saori’s best selling manga chronicles her marriage with American journalist Tony Laszlo and their cultural differences which they will encounter and overcome. Hana Yori Dango’s live action star, Mao [...]

The very first trailer for the upcoming Mamoru Oshii’s (Ghost in the Shell, The Sky Crawlers, Patlabor) live action film Assault Girls is now being streamed at goo eiga.

Plot: In the aftermath of global thermonuclear war, the Earth’s surface has been turned into a desert battlefield. Three beautiful female hunters: Gray (Meisa Kuroki), [...]