Tokyo Blog, Tokyo Story
The blog of Stephen David Smith, Tokyo, Japan 2012
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Live Action Ninja Scroll
Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company are now planning a live action Ninja Scroll to accompany their existing anime adaptation of the epic Akira. He’s looking to get SMAP (a J-Pop all boy singing group) to act in the movie, so it’s looking positive in the sense that he actually wants to cast Japanese actors in the roles of actual Japanese people – seems obvious to most of us I guess, but not to Hollywood’s casting agents it would seem judging by the recently released Dragonball Evolution movie. I’m semi-positive about this, but it still baffles me how they are going to match the provocative, ultra-violent, psychedelic qualities of the 90′s original. Time will tell I guess.
October 26th, 2009 at 2:19 am
For The Love Of God…….NOOOOOOO!!!!!
October 28th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
After thinking some more on this – I think ‘live action’ remakes of anime are categorically a bad idea. The whole attraction of anime is: IT’S ANIME!