Insights from the Cinematic World: manga

Oldboy

Spike Lee’s Oldboy kicks off with the unfathomable experience of Joe Doucett (Josh Brolin) a downward-spiraling advertising executive and absent father who, one drunken night, is kidnapped out of the blue and placed into a mind-numbing solitary confinement within a bizarre, hotel-like prison for the next 20 years

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Akira sortit initialement le 16 juillet 1988 par Toho au Japon a battu le record d'assitance pour un film d'animation

Akira

AKIRA (アキラ?) is a 1988 Japanese animated action film written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo based on his hit manga. The film is set in a futuristic and post-war city, Neo-Tokyo, in 2019. While most of the character designs and basic settings were adapted from the original 2182-page manga epic, the restructured plot of the movie differs considerably from the print version, pruning much of the last half of the manga.

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