For those who are familiar with Japanese cinema first-hand, they know what a work like "Lone Wolf and His Child", is considered a classic of the “samurai action” genre, and is even presented by some film researchers as the founder of this genre.
Lone wolf and cub (or in Japanese Kozure Okami) was originally a comic book (manga) by the author Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima. The comic was published from 1970 to 1976, gaining wild popularity. It is not surprising that four plays, three television series, six feature-length films and several television films were created based on the manga.
At different times, the main character of the story - the personal executioner of the shogun and sword master Ogami Ito - was played by such venerable theater and film actors as Yorozuya Kinnosuke, Hideki Takahashi, Kinya Kitaoji и Tamura Masakazu. However, the real embodiment of the ronin Ogami Ito for Western viewers was the actor and martial artist Tomisaburo Wakayama, who played the role in all six classic films. You can add to this list Jet Li, who played the main role in the film "The New Legend of Shaolin" (1994), - a kind of rehash of the classic plot by Kazuo Koike.
In 2012, the famous director and producer Justin Lin ("Fast and Furious") was going to make a remake of "Lone Wolf", but then filming did not start due to copyright problems. It recently became known that Hollywood filmmakers have returned to the project again.
The basis for the American remake will be the 1993 film directed by Akira Inoe "Lone Wolf and His Child: The Final Conflict", which is a reimagining of the classic ronin series by Ogami Ito.
The remake will be produced by Stephen Paul ("Tekken 1-2", "Ghost Rider 1-2") from SP International Pictures. According to the news agency Variety, all copyrights with Kazuo Koike and Gekiga Sonjuku, Inc. settled, and the film will appear next year with a Japanese but English-speaking cast.
In a statement to Variety, Stephen noted that he has been a huge fan of the original films for many years, and is now very excited to begin work on this project. Paul's credits include Lone Wolf as yet another film based on a popular Japanese source. His other project is at the filming stage - a film adaptation of the famous anime. "Ghost in armor".
It remains to be said that Justin Lin was not left without his “Japanese” project - it was he who was entrusted with the shooting of the long-suffering project on the film adaptation of the famous anime "Akira".
Well, while we are waiting for some new information about the upcoming remake of “Lone Wolf,” we can speculate about who will get the main role of the sword master Ogami Ito, who, together with his three-year-old son, will take revenge on the Yagui clan for the murder of his family.
Who do you think will best embody this now classic image on screen?
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Tags: Lone wolf and cub, Justin Lin, Kinya Kitaoji, Tamura Masakazu, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Hideki Takahashi
Tags: Lone wolf and cub, Justin Lin, Kinya Kitaoji, Tamura Masakazu, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Hideki Takahashi
I agree - not the worst cast for a movie.
I think Watanabe would be very suitable for this role. And the main villains are Hiroyuki Sanada and Tadanobu Asano. Well, seeing the three of them in such a film is just a dream :)))
The Americans have only one or two Japanese actors, but I’ve missed them))).
Apart from Ken Watanabe, I can’t even remember offhand the eldest of Kosugi’s sons....
The actors will be Japanese! But English speakers. :)
I don’t even know... None of the actors I know do Yai-do or Ken-do, like Wakayama or Mifune, for example. Not very popular nowadays BI.
And if you stage it as a computer-cascade mixture, then .... any age actor with the charisma of a lonely man stingy with emotions, in decent physical shape for his age))).... Liam Neeson, Tim Roth (by the way, here is a fencer at least...), Robert Downey Jr. (the producer will go broke =)) or Sean Penn