![]() High school classmates Moritaka Mashiro and Akito Takagi, one an illustrator, the other a writer, decide to team up to create a successful manga series. It also earned Ōne Best Director at the 35th Japanese Movie Critics Awards and Yasuyuki Ōzeki the Japan Academy Prize for Best Film Editing. It was nominated for several awards, winning Best Picture at the 25th Japanese Professional Movie Awards. The film stars Takeru Satoh, Ryūnosuke Kamiki, Shota Sometani, Nana Komatsu, Kenta Kiritani, and Hirofumi Arai.īakuman opened at number one at the Japanese box office on October 3, 2015, and has grossed over $13 million. ![]() Bakuman was produced by Minami Ichikawa, with music by the band Sakanaction, and distributed by Toho. ![]() ![]() It tells the story of two Japanese high school students who attempt to break into the competitive world of manga. Bakuman ( Japanese: バクマン。) is a 2015 Japanese film written and directed by Hitoshi Ōne, based on the manga of the same name by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. ![]()
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![]() ![]() John was still smiling as we entered our classroom. I tip-toed around the cards the best I could, but the hall was busy and narrow. Tyler crawled on the floor, trying to pick them up before too many people stepped on them. They’re probably the same cards that scattered across the hallway when John tripped him. It gives him plenty of room to spread his cards out-the kind that have pictures of wizards and dragons on them. That’s the main reason he sits alone in the cafeteria no one can stand to watch him eat. Probably because he’s overweight, wears sweat pants every day, and dips whatever the lunch ladies serve us in ranch dressing. Tyler’s been nicknamed The Blob since second grade. John didn’t even stop to enjoy his evil deed, but called over his shoulder, Watch where you’re going Blob. Tyler fell and a deck of playing cards scattered across the hallway. ![]() It was the last week of sixth grade, the morning John Marten stuck his foot in front of Tyler. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s easy to say, in retrospect, that Lucas would have done a better job. It’s not clear from Iger’s reflections just how much was changed, or what plot points Disney tossed out or kept alive, or how this would have all looked if Lucas had maintained control over his IP. Rey is not a Mary Sue Credit: LucasFilm / Disney He’s not necessarily a script guy, however, and a large part of the original trilogy’s success was his collaboration with other writers and directors who helped turn his ideas into engaging filmmaking. The trade war stuff was interesting, but far too predominant. Darth Vader became an angsty emo teenager. I also am reminded of the prequel trilogy, which Lucas had total control over, and which was, in every sense of the word, terrible. ![]() a very large pile of money to comfort oneself over loss of creative control. In 2012, Disney acquired LucasFilm for $2.2 billion in cash and $1.855 billion in stock. Then again, it’s even more difficult to imagine having billions of dollars. One can only imagine what that must feel like. So what to make of all of this? It’s easy to feel bad for Lucas, whose own creation was suddenly no longer his to shape and direct. ![]() ![]() ![]() A former Miss World contestant, she is besotted with Max who hardly notices she exists. Gela is Max’s girl Friday, secretory, general factotum. He detests Petronella, but wouldn’t say no. She’s rumoured to have slept with everybody, ever, not because she particularly enjoys sex, but more to further demoralise her husband.īuggie driver #1 is Heimie. Max Grant, the director, is onto his fifth marriage, this one to charm-free zone Petronella who devotes her life to making his a misery. “They were probably running from the plague” opines one cheerless soul.Ĭhapter 2 is a mini-soap opera in which we learn of the convoluted relationships between the main players. This seems to have been abandoned in a hurry. The Wonder Films team have flown out with not much idea of what they intend shooting, but you get the feeling that’s about to change as they’ve just discovered a deserted castle with it’s own satellite ghost village nearby. ![]() This time the location is the mud flats and lagoons of the Marismas in Spain, which makes a welcome change from Transylvania. Peter Saxon – The Torturer (Mayflower-Dell, Dec. ![]() |