Sunday, June 07, 2009

POLL 58: COMIC BOOK ADAPTATIONS

My poll 58 is inspired by the film ANTIQUE, which is adapted from a comic book. It is very cartoonish, but it is still very funny and entertaining. I like that it is very gay-friendly. But what I like the most about it is its subplot about a serial killer. From some aspects, I think ANTIQUE treats its plot about serial killing in a more interesting way than SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE.


THESE LIVE-ACTION FILMS/TV SERIES ARE ADAPTED FROM COMIC BOOKS. WHICH ONES DO YOU LIKE?

1.AMBROSIA (2005, Tadafumi Ito, from Kazuo Umezu)

2.ANTIQUE (2008, Min Kyu-dong, from Fumi Yoshinaga)

3.BUG'S HOUSE (2005, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, from Kazuo Umezu)

4.CONSTANTINE (2005, Francis Lawrence, from Jamie Delano and Garth Ennis)

5.DEATH NOTE (2005, Shusuke Kaneko, from Tsugumi Oba + Takeshi Obata)

6.ELEKTRA (2005, Rob Bowman, from Frank Miller)

7.FLASH GORDON (1980, Mike Hodges, from Alex Raymond)

8.HONEY & CLOVER (2006, Masahiro Takada, from Chika Umino)

9.HOTEL HIBISCUS (2002, Yuji Nakae, from Miko Nakasone)

10.IMMORTEL (AD VITAM) (2004, Enki Bilal, from Enki Bilal)

11.KITARO (2007, Katsuhide Motoki, from Shigeru Mizuki)

12.NANA (2005, Kentaro Otani, from Ai Yazawa)

13.THE PUNISHER (1989, Mark Goldblatt)

14.THE PUNISHER (2004, Jonathan Hensleigh)

15.SUKEBAN DEKA II (1985, TV series, from Shinji Wada)

16.TOWN OF EVENING CALM, COUNTRY OF CHERRY BLOSSOMS (2007, Kiyoshi Sasabe, from Fumiyo Kono)

17.20TH CENTURY BOYS: CHAPTER TWO -- THE LAST HOPE (2009, Yukihiko Tsutsumi, from Naoki Urasawa)

18.200 POUNDS BEAUTY (2006, Kim Yong-hwa, from Yumiko Suzuki)

19.WONDER WOMAN (1976-1979, TV series)

20.X-MEN 2 (2003, Bryan Singer)

You can cast multiple votes.

2 comments:

celinejulie said...

You can read more information about films adapted from Japanese comic books in a Thai magazine called FILMAX, issue 21, March 2009.

celinejulie said...

My own votes are for AMBROSIA, ANTIQUE, BUG'S HOUSE, ELEKTRA, HOTEL HIBISCUS, THE PUNISHER 1989, THE PUNISHER 2004, SUKEBAN DEKA II, and TOWN OF EVENING CALM COUNTRY OF CHERRY BLOSSOMS.