ninja scroll

from darkhorizons.com

"Leonardo DiCaprio is considering casting Japan's SMAP pop group as the main leads in Warner Brothers and Appian Way's proposed live-action adaptation of the 1993 anime feature "Ninja Scroll" reports The Anime News Network.

According to the Nikkan Sports newspaper, casting is in progress with DiCaprio's expressing intention to "cast with Japanese people."

The five members of SMAP — Masahiro Nakai, Takuya Kimura, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Goro Inagaki and Shingo Katori — have acted in several films based on manga and anime since the band's formation in 1988, but have not acted together in the same film since 1994's "Shoot".

Yoshiaki Kawajiri wrote and directed the original 1993 anime about a wandering ninja fighting a conspiracy of demons."

And for anyone wondering what SMAP look like...

whatever, ninja scroll sucks anyway

I would totally bang the one second from the left...boy or girl...I can't really tell.

Look at those pouty eyes...

  autopilot said:

I would totally bang the one second from the left...boy or girl...I can't really tell.

 

Look at those pouty eyes...

fag

The one all the way on the left is yummy.

I think there's already a live action one.

smap? really? dude, that "band" sucks so hard. figures leo would be into those douchebags.

Look like a manufactured Japanese boy band...

Newa Krids on da Brock

hehehehehe

  Joyrex said:

Look like a manufactured Japanese boy band...

that's because they are!

  beneboi said:

whatever, ninja scroll sucks anyway

  catsonearth said:

  Joyrex said:

Look like a manufactured Japanese boy band...

 

that's because they are!

Funny, I didn't see any seams or zippers...

  Joyrex said:

  catsonearth said:

  Joyrex said:

Look like a manufactured Japanese boy band...

 

that's because they are!

 

Funny, I didn't see any seams or zippers...

japan surpassed the low-tech reliance on such trivial things back in the late 80s. does the ps3 have zippers? no!

  beneboi said:

whatever, ninja scroll sucks anyway

Winner.

I really liked ninja scroll when it came out. A long time ago. I don't really watch much anime though so what is way better than ninja scroll?

  marf said:

I really liked ninja scroll when it came out. A long time ago. I don't really watch much anime though so what is way better than ninja scroll?

Akira

hopefully he's forgotten about akira. it's cool if they want to rape shitty anime, but don't touch akira.

  zaphod said:

hopefully he's forgotten about akira. it's cool if they want to rape shitty anime, but don't touch akira.

right. is the manga any good?

  Joyrex said:

Funny, I didn't see any zippers...

You're thinking of Japanese RPGs.

  sneaksta303 said:

  zaphod said:

hopefully he's forgotten about akira. it's cool if they want to rape shitty anime, but don't touch akira.

 

right. is the manga any good?

The manga is miles better than the movie, they are different too, that was a great decision because I've read the manga first before I watched the movie and I didn't want to see the same stuff again. You can find the scans online if you want to preview it, there's also a color edition but I didn't like it too much, it started good but in later issues the coloring got too distracting.

the manga is great but so is the movie. two different things. yeah they cram too much into the movie but who cares, it's got awesome music and animation. "tetsuooooooooo" doesn't work in written form either.

seen akira. Come on.

I have to admit, if they were able to reproduce the completely ridiculous violence in Ninja Scroll it might not actually be too bad, like the giant boomerang blade in the forest. But I don't see the rape scene or the woman with the snake in her vag making it in the final cut.

  beneboi said:

I have to admit, if they were able to reproduce the completely ridiculous violence in Ninja Scroll it might not actually be too bad, like the giant boomerang blade in the forest. But I don't see the rape scene or the woman with the snake in her vag making it in the final cut.

That's what I remember liking about it when I saw it as a kid, the scene in the trees, the sword battle in the forest, the way each opponent had a different special ability. It didn't reinvent the genre or anything but for what it was it was decent. But feel free to suggest something better in the same genre (samurai/sword fighting) or you could always articulate why you feel the way you do with an intelligent argument.

Samurai Champloo.

It's awesome because it's pretty rad.