Ninja Kids!!! aka Nintama Rantarô
Written by Yoshio Urasawa, based on the manga Rakudai Ninja Rantaro by Soubee Amako
Directed by Takashi Miike
Japan, 2011
This year the Fantasia Film Festival have been running screenings they call “My First Fantasia” to encourage the next generation of obsessed film geeks. The screening of Ninja Kids!!! was an unofficial extension of those screenings with a good third of the audience around ten years old.
There was a lot for them to enjoy in Miike’s colourful adaptation of Amako’s gag manga. Mixed with the slapstick and the poop jokes was a naive but touching story of a young boy from a very unsuccessful Ninja family learning what it takes to be a great Ninja.
Between the over-sized glasses of our hero Rantarō and the wacky Ninja school setting, there is a whiff of early Harry Potter to the film, mixed with buffoonish villains in Dick Tracy make-up.
Written by Yoshio Urasawa, based on the manga Rakudai Ninja Rantaro by Soubee Amako
Directed by Takashi Miike
Japan, 2011
This year the Fantasia Film Festival have been running screenings they call “My First Fantasia” to encourage the next generation of obsessed film geeks. The screening of Ninja Kids!!! was an unofficial extension of those screenings with a good third of the audience around ten years old.
There was a lot for them to enjoy in Miike’s colourful adaptation of Amako’s gag manga. Mixed with the slapstick and the poop jokes was a naive but touching story of a young boy from a very unsuccessful Ninja family learning what it takes to be a great Ninja.
Between the over-sized glasses of our hero Rantarō and the wacky Ninja school setting, there is a whiff of early Harry Potter to the film, mixed with buffoonish villains in Dick Tracy make-up.
- 7/20/2011
- by Michael Ryan
- SoundOnSight
For some, Takashi Miike is kind of becoming like your favorite local indie band. They had a fresh sound. You saw them play for the first time in an elementary school gym with shitty acoustics and bathroom urinals that only came up to you knees. You would drive for hours to see them play in small town curling rinks. You followed them as they started to get into shows and clubs. Then other people started to take notice and the crowds got bigger, the venues larger and guys with lanyards and VIP passes were ushering them into the dark corners of the clubs and you no longer heard their songs on Am but FM radio. Bastards! They've sold out! They've gone mainstream! They're no longer that little indie band but are now talking to boys wearing makeup on MuchMusic.
Dicks!
The more Takashi Miike enters into mainstream film the more...
Dicks!
The more Takashi Miike enters into mainstream film the more...
- 4/28/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Earlier today it was announced that the Nhk anime series “Nintama Rantaro” will be made into a live-action film directed by Takashi Miike. Miike of course has recent experience adapting a childrens’ anime series after having directed the live-action adaptation of Yatterman least year. Yatterman was a pretty big success at the box office due to its cross-generational appeal, so it makes sense for Miike to be hired for a similar project.
Popular 8-year-old actor Seishiro Kato has been cast in the lead role. Kato has appeared in a ton of TV dramas in a career spanning pretty much his entire life, but his stock rose a little higher last year when he appeared in the kid manager series of Toyota ads and the Nhk drama “Tenchijin”.
The anime, which is based on Soubee Amako’s “Rakudai Ninja Rantaro” manga series, revolves around young boy named Rantaro who’s born...
Popular 8-year-old actor Seishiro Kato has been cast in the lead role. Kato has appeared in a ton of TV dramas in a career spanning pretty much his entire life, but his stock rose a little higher last year when he appeared in the kid manager series of Toyota ads and the Nhk drama “Tenchijin”.
The anime, which is based on Soubee Amako’s “Rakudai Ninja Rantaro” manga series, revolves around young boy named Rantaro who’s born...
- 4/24/2010
- Nippon Cinema
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