With a manga that has sold over 50 million copies and an anime series that has been equally successful both in Japan and overseas, a live-action adaptation of “Gintama” was bound to happen. Yuichi Fukuda was tasked with the job and did a fine job on quite a difficult adaptation. Let us take things from the beginning, though.
Gintama is screening at the 19th Japan Film Fest Hamburg
The story takes place in an alternate late-Edo period, where humanity is attacked by aliens called “Amanto” but when the shogun realizes the power of aliens, he betrays the samurai and surrenders to the aliens. The shogun writes an unequal contract with aliens which allows the aliens to enter the country and places a ban on carrying swords in public. The swords of samurai are taken away so they can no longer resist the aliens. After that, the shogunate becomes a puppet government...
Gintama is screening at the 19th Japan Film Fest Hamburg
The story takes place in an alternate late-Edo period, where humanity is attacked by aliens called “Amanto” but when the shogun realizes the power of aliens, he betrays the samurai and surrenders to the aliens. The shogun writes an unequal contract with aliens which allows the aliens to enter the country and places a ban on carrying swords in public. The swords of samurai are taken away so they can no longer resist the aliens. After that, the shogunate becomes a puppet government...
- 5/12/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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