Which Junji Ito stories do you think could be adapted well into film?
Which Junji Ito stories do you think could be adapted well into film?
Xavier Sanders
Carter Powell
what the fuck was his problem?
Isaiah Price
The holes in the wall that are in the shape of people is the only (only!) scary one
Colton Harris
>WOT IF manga
>scary
Ian Brooks
Most of Tomie stories should be adaptable if you have a good horror makeup/effects crew. Too bad all the Tomie movies are shit.
Dissection Girl, Whispering Woman, The Town Without Streets etc as well should be pretty adaptable.
Really surprised none of the live action Junji Ito movies actually even bother to go with the "Sin City" route and go high contrast black and white, would probably look far better with the atmosphere of Itos work.
Jack Williams
The one about the crystal balls from the afterlife
Ryan Mitchell
Honestly it's not even hard to do this sort of effect in After Effects, literally takes like 20 minutes.
Jordan Baker
Post the end bitch
Christopher Jones
youtube.com
In terms of looks, this girl looks pretty good for Tomie.
Justin Flores
Childhood is idolizing Junji Ito.
Adulthood is realizing Kago Shintaro makes more sense.
Gavin Perez
They already did Uzumaki. It was terrible. He just doesn't translate well to film.
Dominic Sullivan
>muh gore
Umezu is the real man's choice
Sebastian Ramirez
So how is that anime going?
Jeremiah Reed
The animation is cheap as shit.
Luke Scott
The two of them are completely different. They both do body horror but for different purpose.
Ito is for the atmosphere and the general horror about body modification. It's also about the general reactions towards a supernatural element. Kago is about comedy and surrealism. Modifying one's body (or one's panel format) to instill a general sense of ridiculousness which provokes curiosity and humours. Kago is grotesque and uses it for laughs.
I love them both anyway.
Jason Smith
It's complete garbage.
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This does a pretty good job explaining why.
Honestly I've never understood why people are so lazy with adaptions when they could be done so much better with ease. For example, in that video, the scene with the dinner at the table? In motion, you could do a really cool effect, where the girl MC zooms back making her smaller and the father and bother in the foreground zoom towards the frame, creating a disorientating image where it really shows the oppressive atmosphere of the father and brother and how small the MC is feeling.
Nup, they don't even show perspective as well, they just completely flatten the image in the animation.
This is actually a problem I've noticed a lot in Cyberpunk as well, in the original Ghost in the Shell movie, scenes with the City show the city sort of slowly zoom into frame, while the camera also zooms away from the character, which makes the city "grow" showing it's sheer size and atmosphere (Akira does this as well), but for the amount of fucking times Cyberpunk references the shots in Akira and Ghost in the Shell, they never fucking use this effect and just have a flat fucking image.
Dylan Jenkins
Even though it probably wouldn't translate to the screen well, Hanging Balloons is the one that stuck with me the most.
Henry Murphy
There are several live-action films adapted from Junji Ito manga from Japan.
And yes all are shit.
Xavier Miller
not true
the one with the girl whos family spies on her gets to me
and the spiral ones
Hunter Bell
They're shit though not because all Junji Ito is unadaptable, they're shit because Japanese cinema since around 2000 has completely lost any sense of cinematography, lighting, acting, scriptwriting.
Junji Ito's work relies a lot on high contrast lighting, where Japanese film and television has the flattest, dullest diffused lighting possible.
Compare pic related to which is how you would actually do Junji Ito.
yeah for me as well. It is by far the most creepy story.
Hudson Powell
Nobody likes a lonely only. Everybody join hands now. Everybody join hearts now.
Grayson Fisher
I seriously admire the way Kago takes a really crazy concept (i.e. abortion turned into a fashion statement) then develops and expands on it until its ultimate conclusion. Not to mention stories like abstraction or the one where the panels of the comic are treated as physical locations are little masterpieces of sequential art
Colton Bell
>This is how the mind of a dentist works deep inside
Never trust a dentist. NEVER.
Blake Howard
I just saw that video and totally agree. It's a shame because a Junji Ito anime could be so good, the source material is worth so much more than that shitty show
Jacob Richardson
did the crapp anime animeate DRR... DRR...? I want to know what that's supposed to sound like.
Ayden Perez
I always thought it sound like DUUR from HUUR DUUR maymay.
Leo Butler
re: GitS and its use of cityscapes, this is the best analysis I've seen to date
John Nelson
It's a mistranslation, it's supposed to be a slipping sound.
Christian Price
Remina
Bentley Cooper
I just tried to read fetus collection is the ending seriously just the baby not coming out? It doesn't seem like an ending at all but 2 different websites stopped there
Christopher Jenkins
It was funny the Fan live action ghost in the shell stuff was better.
Jayden Clark
What's that manga where the girl gets holes in her body and keeps filling it with things?
Gabriel Roberts
How gross is it.
I really cant be arsed to slug through a story if there is too much gore.
And the japanese love being gratuitous with their gore
Brandon Gray
Wait...why is she opening her mouth?
Joseph Thomas
would be cool if they took 4 different stories and made a movie anthology out of them directed by 4 different horror directors.
because as one long movie...his stories would suck
Jonathan Sullivan
Fetus collection doesn't really have any gore you're good
Jace Brooks
Yeah. That's a other thing Kago and Ito have in common. A lot of times their stories don't have an ending, they just sort of stop
Kayden Richardson
Fetus collection isn't that bad, all things considered
Just stay away from stories like "the drafting of a water goddess" and you'll be fine
Owen White
Which is good if youre going for horror.
Resolution and explanation usually take away some of the edge of the horror.
Jordan Barnes
Un-ironically Rob Zombie Goresploitation tier
Alexander Price
12 hours long 1:1 on screen remake, directed by Lynch or someone wacky like that
Would you watch it?
Bentley King
This can definitely work. Very grounded, thrilling and keeps you confused until the end.
Hellstar Remina would be my ideal choice because of the cosmic horror we lack. Plus it's an incredible story.
Hideaki Anno please. I love Lynch but not him
Charles Moore
>"the drafting of a water goddess"
I discovered Kago with that story when I was 13 and browsing Sup Forums for the first time.
It shaped up what kind of man I will become.
Austin Martin
Read it for yourself, it's short: The Enigma of Amigara Fault
Luis Butler
manga is underrated. so much awesome and unique stuff there.
Nicholas Perry
Don't give Anno more reasons to never finish 4.0
Daniel Rivera
>Plus it's an incredible story.
It really is. That fucking grim-but-cheery ending.
Jaxson Turner
Thomas Ligotti explains the difference between horror and weird fiction like that. In horror there's typically an explanation (a curse, a monster, a ghost, an experiment gone wrong, etc) while weird fiction is an enigma that can't be dispelled; it's not about why things happen, but what Lovecraft called a violation of the natural order. Ito sometimes writes weird fiction (Uzumaki, the giant head balloons, army of one, etc). It's when he veers into straight horror and tries to explain things that his tales don't succeed as much
Christopher Cooper
I don't think there's enough meat for a full length film.
I think it could work if you adapted them into 30 minute long episodes in an anthology series. Set it up, build the atmosphere give the spoop, then get out before anyone notices the story wasn't resolved.
Anthony Carter
If you haven't already check out drifting classroom, its got similiar vibes to Ito's stuff.
Isaac Cox
The thing about weird fiction is it's not necessarily scary either. It's just weird.
James Nguyen
nothing in fiction is scary because its all made up retard. The only sense of fear is how we compare said ideas with our own lives
Charles Morris
>not Suehiro Maruo
Do yourself a favor and read The Laughing Vampire.
John Green
She likes it
Camden Brooks
Yeah man, too bad Sup Forums is absolute trash
Ayden Hall
One non-Ito horror that comes to mind is Kazuo Umzeu's The Drifting Classroom. I think it can work as a movie, minus all the preachy stuff about the environment and all. This legit has Jurassic Park and whatnot before it was even a thing. A classic IMO
Grayson Stewart
Ryder Baker
Didn't Ito pen Uzumaki?
If so, they already made a pretty good, batshit insane movie out of his work.
Jose Campbell
Machino Henmaru The Holes
Jeremiah Taylor
Kevin Russell
The uzumaki live action film was trash though. There is an animated gyo movie thats pretty good though.
Gavin Williams
lel
Andrew Gray
Fucking goosebumps
Jason Miller
Justin Barnes
completely remove any of the almost comical endings of itou junji
just look at the window next door story
in the anime it ends with the protaginst telling the viewer that they moved immedietly once the parents saw the window having grown to be right next to his
in the manga it ends with a caption that says that his parents are thinking about moving somewhere else, classic itou ending
Justin Perry
The Gyo OVA was fucking weird and it wasn't because of Ito's source work.
Like the graphic mmf threesome that served no purpose or the girl getting tentacle rape by one of the fish. It was so out of place for a Junji Ito's story but it was campy and it reminded me of old exploitation b-movie. It was entertaining overall but I'd wish the adaptation would have been more faithful.
William Moore
Izumaki (Spiral) was already adapted in live action and it's very meh
I think Hellstar Remina could make for a good movie
how bad are the anime?
William Butler
>he hasn't seen uzumaki
Dylan Nelson
poorly adapted considering uzumaki is itou's greatest work and the live action ruins most of the story that made the manga great
Hudson Gonzalez
is that the 3rd impact?
David Nguyen
deserter in the house
Aaron Ortiz
isn't it the plot of Melancholia? also Zelda
Juan Barnes
do they have a massive beings that eats planets?
Lucas Hernandez
Eyepatch Wolf is one of the best anime youtubers out there
Cameron Collins
>how bad are the anime?
worse than terrible, they're boring
Cooper Jackson
this
also he is comfy as fuck
Pause & Select is also god tier but I don't know that many others
Cameron Fisher
Did they want to crucify a young girl in Melancholia because she was the namesake of the planet and people thought murdering her would save the world?
Carson Rogers
Why is Ito so based?
he is almost on par with the Berserk guy in term of drawing quality
Carter Fisher
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS
Xavier Morales
This could work for a very good 90 minutes movie, I feel. Things would have to be added to pad up for the time but I'm sure it could work without distorting the original story.
Justin Hughes
this
Uzumaki movie was trash. That fucking editing was dreadful.
Caleb Baker
>almost on par
itou is better, he devotes more than 9 hours into making each reveal as detailed as possible
Austin Ross
I don't know if his ideas work too well with film. Really would have loved to experience what he could contribute to Kojima and del toros silent hills though.
Christian Green
take your edgy Sup Forumscomic and fuck off
not tv or film related
Jack Russell
He pretty much honed and perfected his style for the kind of monstrosities he likes drawing. He also reminds me of Pickman's Model a bit
>You know, it takes profound art and profound insight into Nature to turn out stuff like Pickman’s. Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare or a Witches’ Sabbath or a portrait of the devil, but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That’s because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear—the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper colour contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.
Carter Adams
>that manga I read a long time ago on Sup Forums where it's about a girl who can't shit and maim herself so she can take her shit out
is that by Ito ? it was the same drawing style
I don't think he is that gross though
Jacob Lewis
one of the most disgusting itou junji moments
Christian Stewart
No, that was Kago Shintaro
Zachary Wright
itou junji reminds me of a comic book i read as a kid, it was about some kid that was dumped in the sewers and survived by eating a weird looking worm that made him able to survive without needing to breath, it also turned him into a horrible monster
Brayden Phillips
>user is too scared
Elijah Nguyen
i remember that thread, good times, fucked me up good
but no it doesn't resemble his style and i've read all his work and it doesn't show up
Charles Edwards
It's by Shintaro Kago, from an anthology called Hell Season.
And this was probably by Hideshi Hino, pic related. Same Hideshi Hino who made those Guinea Pig gore flicks, btw
Michael Myers
Not even, just a nice Hitchcock episode length would do.
Julian Cooper
Someone should start up a masters of horror type anthology show, but just adapt horror manga and comics.
Alexander Johnson
no, the one i read was a comic book as in western hemisphere, it was a collection of short stories, it also had one other story i remember that was about an alien invasion where the aliens are gigantic eye spiders that shoot lasers
Levi Parker
Most Ito panels are not detailed
Justin Morales
most mothers aren't whores
Carson White
that'd be great.
Kinda reminds me of 4bia, a movie made up of 4 parts(stories) with each story having a different director. It was fun because the length of each was just right, some were made to be scary but others as a comedy
Also reminds me of Yami Shibai, I liked that season 1 but kinda feel that season 2 went downhill a lot.
Damn that shit has 5 seasons already, didn't even bother to watch after the 2nd one
Cameron Martin
Gyo already got made into a film and it was OK. Could've been done much better though.
Jonathan Rodriguez
Junji Ito