{"id":23903,"date":"2010-11-18T22:29:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T02:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=23903"},"modified":"2010-11-18T22:30:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T02:30:36","slug":"funi-acquires-more-live-action-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/funi-acquires-more-live-action-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"FUNi Acquires More Live Action Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/FUNi_movies_2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/FUNi_movies_2011-450x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"FUNi_movies_2011\" width=\"450\" height=\"128\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-23904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/FUNi_movies_2011-450x128.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/FUNi_movies_2011-300x85.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FUNimation has revealed its acquisition of distribution rights to the Japanese live action <em>Higanjima<\/em>, <em>Tajomaru<\/em>, and <em>Drop<\/em> motion pictures along with the live action Korean action\/drama <em>The Sword With No Name<\/em>, and the Taiwanese action film <em>The Treasure Hunter<\/em>. All five films are tentatively due out in America next year. FUNimation&#8217;s rights include theatrical distribution options for <em>Higanjima<\/em> and <em>The Sword With No Name<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Higanjima<\/em>, released in Japan last January, is a Japanese\/Korean co-produced adaptation of Koji Matsumoto&#8217;s horror action manga. The film was directed by Volcano High director Tae-Gyun Kim.<\/p>\n<p>The 2009 drama <em>Drop<\/em> was written and directed by Hiroshi Shinagawa, based on his autobiographical novel &#038; manga about his days as a teenage delinquent.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tajomaru<\/em> is director Hiroyuki Nakano&#8217;s 2009 historical action drama inspired by the story that inspired Akira Kurosawa&#8217;s 1950 film <em>Rashomon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Sword With No Name<\/em> is a 2009 romantic action drama revolving around the ascendency of historical Empress Myeongseong.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Treasure Hunter<\/em> is a 2009 adventure fantasy in the vein of the American <em>Indiana Jones<\/em> &#038; &#8220;<em>The Mummy<\/em>&#8221; movie franchises. Jay Chou (Initial D) stars.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchfilm.com\/news\/2010\/11\/funimation-snaps-up-higanjima-drop-the-sword-with-no-name-tajomaru-and-treasure-hunter.php\" target=\"_blank\">Twitch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FUNimation has revealed its acquisition of distribution rights to the Japanese live action Higanjima, Tajomaru, and Drop motion pictures along with the live action Korean action\/drama The Sword With No Name, and the Taiwanese action film The Treasure Hunter. All five films are tentatively due out in America next year. FUNimation&#8217;s rights include theatrical distribution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23906,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23903\/revisions\/23906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}