I think the guy kind of pulls off the Kenshin look
I think the guy kind of pulls off the Kenshin look
Got a bit scared when I first saw the WB logo, but was pleasantly surprised all around. Will be looking forward to this
not half bad...whens it coming out, sept?
Looks like sometime this fall.
Yeah, I'm also actually looking forward to this. I'm always highly skeptical when live action and Japan is mentioned in the same sentence, but this looked surprisingly good based on the teaser.
It's a trailer. Made by the West. You are all being deceived!
I'm pretty sure Blood+ looked OMGAAMZING too.
"Leaving hell is not the same as entering it." - Tierce Japhrimel
Why do you think the trailer is made by Westerners? It looks like a typical fansub of an Asian made trailer for an Asian movie.
I'll agree though, a lot of anime does not translate well into live action. You can't get the skirts to flow just right to allow the little panty peek, sexist overtones become creepy and gross, and too many special effects make it too cartoony so it just doesn't work in that medium. Here's hoping we're wrong and this is a cool movie worth watching.
For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?
Fortunately Kenshin has enough story and good characters for the script writer and director to work on if they want to make a decent adaptation, instead of a failure of a direct transfer from one medium to another.Originally Posted by Animeniax
Luckily Kenshin was not too cartoony. The guy that is playing Sano looks a bit small, but I will be optimistic unless I see something that suggests it will be utter shit.
The Yahoo! Japan website's Movies section began streaming the full 127-second trailer for the live-action film adaptation of Nobuhiro Watsuki's Rurouni Kenshin manga on Tuesday.
Wow, looks awesome and from little I can tell, faithful to the original anime/manga. I hope they capture the light-hearted innocence of Kenshin and his pals in between the violence.
For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?
Yeah, this looked quite decent, again. At least as long as the English song doesn't make it to the movie. A historical Japanese movie could do without background music in English...
It seems like the movie is stuffed full of material. I hope not too much. The very beginning is there, Sanosuke is there (of which I'm very grateful), the freezing guy Udou, the gatling gun dude, Saitou Hajime, and lots of others. I don't think Kenshin is going to get a break during the film...
I agree the English song was out of place, but still very much how it goes in pop culture in Japan... "anything can be made cooler with an some English." Not sure why, but I also felt great relief when I saw (late in the trailer) that Sanosuke with his giant sword was in the film.
For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?
New one-minute ad. Seems to be a shorter version of the yahoo trailer. Much better quality at least. (1080p)
While I'm happy to see this movie being made, I think it says a lot about the state of Japanese cinema and television that they have to revisit and remake stories and works from their past in order to make worthwhile productions. They're stuck in their past with outdated ideas and systems and unable to progress. This is endemic of their society as well as their cinema.
For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?
Subbed versions are out on the intarwebz. Just finished watching and it was legen.... wait for it.... dary.
Please post a link.
Peace.
This was the one I downloaded.
It has got English subs as a separate srt, which I prompty turned into an .ass with a decent font, and muxed into the mkv. It could have certainly used editing beyond that, but it's perfectly understandable as it is. Also, it's not 720p, like the name suggests, but 536p, due to the picture aspect ratio. About 3GB, with good video quality and multichannel audio.
I'm usually not holding my breath when starting to watch Japanese live action, but in my opinion this was pulled off pretty well. Only tolerable levels of the annoying overacted emotions and dialogue that pollutes much of live action from Japan. Action especially was quite good and suitably bloody, and generally speaking they had found a balance between what looks natural in live action and in manga/anime. Not that Kenshin would have ever been entirely full of strange special attacks that would never translate.
Still, being just a single movie, the scope was necessarily reduced and the story changed considerably. Kenshin himself, Kaoru, Megumi, Kanryuu the opium dealer, and Jin'e survived it well enough or even thrived. Hajime made it as well to a degree, considering his role so far isn't so essential. My favourite character Sanosuke was sacrificied, though. Of course I'm biased, but nevertheless I feel like they could have removed him altogether and the script would have needed barely any editing. He had zero depth and contributed next to nothing, aside from a couple of loose fighting scenes that didn't matter in the bigger picture. Yahiko didn't do much better, but it's not like his role within the boundaries of this movie's plot would have needed anything more.
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Yeah, this was definitely low on the fail meter. I almost felt like I was watching the anime. I think I enjoyed this more than the early anime episodes as well. Kaoru used to annoy me, but I liked her in the movie.
"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour of other, more righteous souls. Your are merely protected. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honourable man dry and offer nothing in return. You who have enjoyed freedom, who have done nothing to earn it, your time has come. This time you will stand alone and fight for yourselves. Now you will pay for your freedom in the currency of honest toil and human blood."
- Inquisitor Czevak
It certainly helped they chose such a cute actress.
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