![]() Naruto begins as a loudmouthed braggart, but who is also optimistic, loyal, and chivalrous to a fault. It turns out Naruto is the host for Kurama, the Ninetailed Demon Fox, who terrorised the village years ago and sealed within Naruto as a baby by the Fourth Hokage. In the story, Naruto Uzumaki is a teenage ninja-in-training who dreams of becoming the Hokage, the leader of his village, in order to gain the respect of its people after years of being persecuted for just existing. Honour the actual story, characters, themes, and setting. Now, how can Naruto be properly adapted for a western audience without butchering it? Simple. The film received mass criticism for this change and lack of resemblance to the manga, so much so that the director and special effects supervisor resorted to making petty insults towards the critics. And sometimes, even Japan’s own attempts to adapt their properties have failed – the Attack on Titan film was reimagined to an Asian setting rather than the manga’s European one. Some are pretty darn good like most of the recent comic book films like The Dark Knight and Avengers Assemble. Sometimes the film can be superior to the source like The Godfather. So manga-based films are very successful in Japan.Ī key thing that can make or break a film based on an established piece of fiction is how close it is to the original source material. Some have been popular like the Death Note movies, and a lot of manga that have in turn been adapted into anime have received tie-in films. ![]() ![]() Japan itself has adapted a number of manga to cinema, directly almost page-per-page recreation. It’s like having a bag of monkey dung poured over your head and ashamed of its own source material. And then, there was Dragonball Evolution, which can be renamed as “How To Not Make A Good Adaptation 101”. Tenma, and the badguy was a not-too-subtle take at George W. There was also Astro Boy by Imagi Studios, a decent movie that mostly honoured its basic story (sci-fi version of Pinocchio), but featured a lot of pointless characters, a sense of being slightly rushed, Nicholas Cage was strangely cast as Dr. ![]() However, it has developed a cult classic. The Wachowskis created a pretty faithful film of Speed Racer, but the audience didn’t really like it, and found the fast-paced special effects to be visually painful. There are probably three notable live action adaptations of manga made in the past ten years. ![]()
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