KV :  Director : HIROKAZU KORE-EDA ( Monster , Shoplifters , Nobody knows , Still Walking )  Set To release in 2026 Edit - MAPPA Is also Involved Hirokazu Kore-eda’s comment on Look Back (source: Deadline)  On the way back after meeting Fujimoto, Director Kore-eda said, "I resolved that I had no choice but to do it." |
Nouzen_ChainsawDec 2, 7:52 PM
| Well, it's absolutely a story that can be adapted as live action. But for some reason they usually just can't help but change things when doing live action adaptations of things, so we'll see. I do know the director is pretty famous, though I haven't watched his films yet. |
| It's by the director of Shoplifters? That movie is amazing. This adaptation is gonna be good. How come Fujimoto gets the best people in the industry to work on his stuff. |
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| Wasn't interested until I saw Kore-eda's name. This man makes peak. Like Father, Like Son and Shoplifters are 2 of my favourite Japanese films |
| Uhh I don't see why they're doing this, especially when the animated movie just came out. But Kore-eda is a respected director, really enjoyed Shoplifters and Broker. Maybe he has an interesting adaptation in mind. The source material is probably too short for a feature-length movie anyway. |
| Animation is literally the best medium that exists and people keep wanting to ruin everything by making live-action. That being said, I'm definitely curious about this one because of the director. I've only seen Our Little Sister, but it's beautiful, maybe it will be a good movie. Edit: it's still not on Letterboxd, I want to add it to my watchlist 💔 |
KamposDec 2, 10:53 AM
Reply to Ronninn
Tithain said:
Well, it's absolutely a story that can be adapted as live action. But for some reason they usually just can't help but change things when doing live action adaptations of things, so we'll see. I do know the director is pretty famous, though I haven't watched his films yet.
Well, it's absolutely a story that can be adapted as live action. But for some reason they usually just can't help but change things when doing live action adaptations of things, so we'll see. I do know the director is pretty famous, though I haven't watched his films yet.
Yeah, most "adaptations" are essentially a spin off, I feel like anime is the only medium dedicated to actually adapting it's source material
| @Ronninn Exactly. Anime are 99% of the time fully faithful to the source material and it's rightfully taken for granted, with the rare exceptions (like original endings and such) being highly infamous. But then you look at live action and pretty much every time it feels like they're changing stuff for the fun of it, and you wonder why they don't just make a faithful, good adaptation of a good source material. Like, I've recently watched the Pancreas live action movie and all the original stuff feels just so wildly out of place, I don't understand why they bothered to add it. All that said though, this might be one case where some original content might actually be the right choice, if not inevitable considering the short length of the original. The director is good and it is definitely possible to make it a bit different while keeping the core intact. And considering that the anime adaptation of Look Back is simply perfect already, we'll always have a great adaptation no matter how things go with this movie. |
| Kore-eda is a colossus. This is definitely gonna be good. I hope more people find out about Look Back and Fujimoto's other works through this live action. |
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| fujimoto just keeps winning big. |
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| One of these rare ones that could actually succeed, in terms of enhancing/adapting an Anime-story, without looking too goofy. |
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