Saho Sasazawa (1930-2002) could well be the Japanese writer whose work has been most adapted to TV and film. He’s had over 380 production credits in Japan related to his writing and help define the samurai cum western genre that saw its fulfillment in “The Magnificent Seven,” a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s “The Seven Samurai.”
Tokyo-based company, Soon Inc. owns the copyright to Sasazawa’s work and its president Satoru Sugaya highlighted its potential at Tiffcom, on the margins of the Tokyo International Film Festival, this week. “Sasazawa’s work is rich in imagery and extremely suspenseful. He has both modern and historical stories, either of which could easily be adapted to film or role-playing games.” In the past Sugaya has optioned the rights of Sasazawa’s work to pachinko game makers, which use themes for each machine, often from popular fiction.
Sugaya notes: “Since Sasazawa is legendary in...
Tokyo-based company, Soon Inc. owns the copyright to Sasazawa’s work and its president Satoru Sugaya highlighted its potential at Tiffcom, on the margins of the Tokyo International Film Festival, this week. “Sasazawa’s work is rich in imagery and extremely suspenseful. He has both modern and historical stories, either of which could easily be adapted to film or role-playing games.” In the past Sugaya has optioned the rights of Sasazawa’s work to pachinko game makers, which use themes for each machine, often from popular fiction.
Sugaya notes: “Since Sasazawa is legendary in...
- 10/26/2018
- by Rob Schwartz
- Variety Film + TV
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