Live Action Jin-Roh Movie Possible
Last weekend, during the Anime Expo convention, Production I.G Vice-President Maki Terashima-Furuta confirmed that, “somebody has the live-action rights, and somebody was planning to make a live-action Jin-Roh.” Mamoru Oshii created the concept of the “Kerberos saga” fictional alternate universe in 1986. Oshii directed the live action Red Spectacles (1987) and Stray Dog (1991) movies that featured the armor clad Panzer Cops that are the signature of the Kerberos saga and also appear in the 1999 anime film Jin-Roh.
Source: Anime News Network
July 7th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Very cool. No doubt a tough and complex task, but a very cool idea. I wrote a lengthy film analysis of JIN-ROH: THE WOLF BRIGADE to cap my senior writing portfolio in college… and while I acknowledge how and why other anime fans don’t hold much favor for the film due to its layered politics and recycled literary themes, it’s my favorite Oshii film.
July 7th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
It’s technically not an Oshii film, just an adaptation of an Oshii concept. As for why I didn’t like it, I really hated the cheap ending which defeated the whole purpose of the movie.
July 8th, 2009 at 2:22 am
I thought Oshii wrote Jin Roh, along with the short Kerberos comic series. Those two live action flicks in comparison are pretty experimental, even by Oshii standards.
July 8th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
On the contrary, I love the ending of Jin-Roh. Throughout the film Fuse identifies himself as a beast without humanity, so I would say that it would have been contrary and out of character had he shown human compassion during the climax. It’s a praiseworthy unflinching and uncompromising ending.
July 10th, 2009 at 1:22 am
My problem is that he seems “forced” to become a beast, and that you don’t really feel he’d do that kind of thing, other than because the plot demanded he do it.