Popular culture in Japan has a long history of being adapted into different mediums. Novels have become movies, movies have been made into manga, and manga series have been turned into anime (and vice versa).
The movies below are some of the best live-action films based on Japanese anime.
The official website for the live-action film and television series adaptation of Ema Toyama's Missions of Love (Watashi ni xx Shinasai!) romantic comedy manga unveiled a new visual for the film. Download Drama, Movie & Live Action Subtitle Indonesia. Untuk mengatasi limit Gdrive/xDrive, gunakan MoeFiles, Login akun google lalu pastekan link GDrive via upload link.
Mushishi
Ginko, a wanderer with a strange affinity for 'mushi'—beings somewhere between spirits and parasites—travels the land, aiding those afflicted by these curious creatures. Like the anime before it, the movie is less a conventional story than a study of the ebb and flow of nature, but that only makes it all the more beautiful and affecting. The film was directed by Katsuhiro (Akira) Otomo, with an appropriately subdued Jo Odagiri (Shinobi) in the lead role.
Blood: The Last Vampire
At the height of America's involvement in Vietnam, Saya, a half-vampire whose teenaged appearance belies her real age, goes undercover at an American military base. Her mission: to find a monster. This live-action reworking of the anime short takes everything that was good about the original and expands on it skillfully. Great photography, some downright startling action sequences (including a fight across the rooftops), and a tightly-plotted story make this one of the best live-action anime adaptations around.
Casshern
In this 2004 film, a soldier is brought back to life through a strange experiment, one that also unleashes a new species of humanity hellbent on taking revenge on the rest of mankind via a robot army. The movie has little in common with the original 'Casshan: Robot Hunter' anime, but that doesn't matter. 'Casshern' combines the astonishing green-screen visuals of '300' with something like a Buddhist take on '2001,' and the result is exhilarating from beginning to end.
Cromartie High School: The Movie
This movie is gleeful, off-the-wall nonsense, just like the original 'Cromartie High' series that inspired it. A parody of a common anime trope—a straight-arrow kid transfers to the worst high school in all of Japan—the film is filled with nonstop absurd humor and a stream of bizarre sight gags. One of the students is a robot; another is a Freddie Mercury clone; eventually, aliens and UFOs appear. 'Cromartie High School' was directed by Yudai Yamaguchi, who worked with Ryuhei Kitamura on the infamous 'Versus.'
Crying Freeman
Before Christophe Gans terrified us with his live-action version of 'Silent Hill,' he made this remarkable adaptation of the super-macho manga/anime franchise 'Crying Freeman,' in which a handsome young artist is brainwashed into becoming an assassin. Marc Dacascos is great in the lead role (he later married his co-star, Julie Condra), and Yoko Shimada (of the 'Shogun' TV miniseries) is quite frightening as the underworld queen Lady Hanada.
Cutie Honey
Bubbly Kisaragi Honey, who can transform into Cutie Honey (and any number of other forms) thanks to her father's technology, goes up against the evil Panther Claw and their leader, the sinister Sister Jill, in this 2004 film. A cheerfully absurd version of Go Nagai's transforming-supergirl story, the movie was directed by, of all people, Hideaki Anno (of 'Neon Genesis Evangelion'). It's as goofy, stylized, and over-the-top as you'd expect, with some creative use of digital effects, still photography, and stop-motion animation.
Death Note and L: Change the World
In this 2006 thriller, Light Yagami has in his possession the Death Note, an artifact that allows him to kill anyone whose name and face he knows. L, a legendary and reclusive detective, is determined to bring him down at all costs. This compression of the TV series into two live-action movies keeps almost everything of importance, discards most of the nonsensical complications that cropped up in the final third of the series, and features two wonderful lead performances.
Detroit Metal City
Mild-mannered Soichi, who only wants to write love songs and strum his acoustic guitar, has been drafted into the role of the fire-spewing lead singer of a vulgar death-metal band that's all the rage in Japan's underground. He can't fool his family and his girlfriend forever—especially not after his diabolical alter ego begins to take over. Funny and fast-moving, 'Detroit Metal City' condenses most of the major plot points from the original comic into a highly entertaining movie.
Dororo
Osamu Tezuka's manga about a swordsman on a quest to regain his various missing body parts was adapted into a black-and-white anime in the 1960s. This movie version is quite unlike either the manga or the anime in its look—it sports state-of-the-art special effects—but it preserves major elements of the original story. Most importantly, it keeps the strained but touching relationship between the urchin Dororo and the swordsman Hyakkimaru, as they wander through a world that's a blend of ancient Japan and future dystopia.
Nana
In 'Nana,' two girls on a train to Tokyo discover that they share the same name, though they couldn't be less similar. One is a romantic looking to rejoin her boyfriend. The other is a would-be rock star setting out to jumpstart her career with a band. The two girls end up sharing an apartment, their lives intertwining in many different ways. The costume designers clearly had a great time bringing the 'punk' Nana to life, but the two lead actresses (Mika Nakashima and Aoi Miyazaki) are what make the movie worthwhile.
Rurouni Kenshin
'Rurouni Kenshin' is everything a live-action anime adaptation should be. Takeru Satō stars as Kenshin, a former assassin who wanders Japan offering to protect those in need. The combat scenes are sensational, and the movie is funny without being too jokey for its own good.
Shinobi: Heart Under the Blade
'Shinobi' is an adaptation of the anime 'Basilisk,' which features flashy, outlandish ninja action and a Romeo and Juliet plot. The movie deviates from the original story in many critical ways, especially at the end, and is best seen as a showcase for the special effects and stunt teams, who do an excellent job throughout. Jo Odagiri stars as a ninja clan leader forced to betray the one he loves.
Speed Racer
The Wachowskis ('The Matrix') created this psychedelic, hyperkinetic adaptation of 'Speed Racer,' a cartoon known for its visual design and improbable physics. The film features an impressive cast, including Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, and John Goodman.
The official website for the live-action film and television series adaptation of Ema Toyama's Missions of Love (Watashi ni xx Shinasai!) romantic comedy manga unveiled a new visual for the film on Monday. The staff for the film also released several screenshots from the film, which are available on the Comic Natalie news site.
The four-episode series will premiere on MBS on March 25 and TBS on March 27, while the film will open in Japan on June 23. Tōru Yamamoto is directing the film and series.
Kodansha Comicspublishes the manga in North America and it describes the story:
Cell phone novelist Yukina Himuro has decided that in order to satisfy her fans' demand for love stories, she must experience romance firsthand. But with her icy reputation, how can she find someone willing to play the part of boyfriend? By blackmailing the most popular boy in school, of course!
Toyama launched the award-winning manga in Kodansha's Nakayoshi magazine in 2009 and ended it in June 2015. Kodansha published 19 compiled book volumes for the manga. Kodansha Comics published the manga's 14th volume last May. Toyama will launch a new manga titled Watashi ni xx Shinasai! Couple-hen (Missions of Love - Couple Arc) on March 2.
Source: Comic Natalie
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