Today is a day for news on live-action anime adaptations it seems. We received our first trailer for the live-action "Gatchaman" aka "Battle of the Planets" earlier today and now we have a new report that a live-action "Lupin III" film is being developed with a few leads already cast. Shun Oguri (Detective Conan) has been pegged for the lead role of Arsène Lupin III, a fictional character that series mangaka Kazuhiko Katō (pen name Monkey Punch...how cool is that?) created back in 1967 as the grandson of Maurice Leblanc's Arsène Lupin. Sho Sakurai (Honey and Clover) will portray the sure-shot Daisuke Jigen while Satoshi Tsumabuki (The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift) has reportedly been cast as master swordsman, Goemon Ishikawa. According to Japanese sources, the film is scheduled to begin shooting this fall with a release set for March 2014. But the real question...
- 6/22/2013
- ComicBookMovie.com
It comes as little surprise Life Is Wonderful helmer Lu Hong was an assistant director on popular idol drama Honey and Clover. Her début feature betrays the same preoccupation with picture-postcard cinematography, whimsical artistic flourishes and tidy life lessons which don't really amount to much. At the same time, it is gently, whimsically pretty, means well and is so lovingly put together it's an undeniably charming diversion, if a somewhat inconsequential one.
The storybook opening sequence introduces us to Chi Ting, a little girl whose parents have apparently abandoned her in the port city of Kaohsiung to live with her grandmother (veteran Taiwanese actress Lu Yi Ching). Chi Ting is terrified of the feisty old lady, who works as a seer and exorcist, setting aside a regular portion of her earnings as a contribution to the mysterious Life Of Never End Co. (hence the alternative English title for the film...
The storybook opening sequence introduces us to Chi Ting, a little girl whose parents have apparently abandoned her in the port city of Kaohsiung to live with her grandmother (veteran Taiwanese actress Lu Yi Ching). Chi Ting is terrified of the feisty old lady, who works as a seer and exorcist, setting aside a regular portion of her earnings as a contribution to the mysterious Life Of Never End Co. (hence the alternative English title for the film...
- 10/2/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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