The live action series Dororo was recently released on DVD and is based on the hit manga series from the 1960s by Osamu Tezuka. It was a massive success at the Japanese box office and the new DVD release has a lot of special features as well as an extra featurette "Road to Dororo".
Osamu Tezuka is the creator of other hits such as Astro Boy and after a few years, Dororo finally got the big screen attention it deserved. The stars of the movie include Kou Shibasaki and Satoshi Tsumabuki, who recently starred in the Fast and the Furious; Tokyo Drift. The DVD is an action packed adventure from the get go and with Siu-Tung Ching in charge of the choreography, there are some pretty incredible fight scenes. Siu-Tung Ching was also involved in House of Flying Daggers; another big hit. This film is certainly going to be a hit with manga fans all over the world and in Japan it's spent an amazing six consecutive weeks at the top of the box office charts. The story is an action tale with a bit of comedy thrown in here and there and it's a mix of everything really from action to comedy. Starting early in the story, you learn that Daigo Kagemitsu makes a deal with a group of 48 demons to sell the body parts of his unborn child in exchange for the power to rule the world. When the child is eventually born, it turns out the deal was for real and the deformed child is almost killed by Daigo for being inadequate. Fortunately, his wife persuades him to let the child live and they set the boy in a basket to float down the river.
The deformed child is then discovered by a mystical physician who creates artificial limbs and organs for the boy and names him Hyakkimaru and eventually raises him as his own child. The story then follows Hyakkimaru as he embarks on a dangerous quest to find the 48 demons that his birth father made a deal with so that he can reclaim his body parts and become fully human.
We then meet Dororo, a young female thief who was raised as a boy by her parents due to the world becoming an uncaring and troubled place, in the hope that she would be emotionally stronger. The stroy then follows Dororo as she meets Hyakkimaru and they embark on the adventure together.
Dororo is a fun and action packed movie that's well worth watching. Full of energy, entertainment and a bit of comedy here and there it's a movie that you just shouldn't miss if you're an anime or manga fan!
Osamu Tezuka is the creator of other hits such as Astro Boy and after a few years, Dororo finally got the big screen attention it deserved. The stars of the movie include Kou Shibasaki and Satoshi Tsumabuki, who recently starred in the Fast and the Furious; Tokyo Drift. The DVD is an action packed adventure from the get go and with Siu-Tung Ching in charge of the choreography, there are some pretty incredible fight scenes. Siu-Tung Ching was also involved in House of Flying Daggers; another big hit. This film is certainly going to be a hit with manga fans all over the world and in Japan it's spent an amazing six consecutive weeks at the top of the box office charts. The story is an action tale with a bit of comedy thrown in here and there and it's a mix of everything really from action to comedy. Starting early in the story, you learn that Daigo Kagemitsu makes a deal with a group of 48 demons to sell the body parts of his unborn child in exchange for the power to rule the world. When the child is eventually born, it turns out the deal was for real and the deformed child is almost killed by Daigo for being inadequate. Fortunately, his wife persuades him to let the child live and they set the boy in a basket to float down the river.
The deformed child is then discovered by a mystical physician who creates artificial limbs and organs for the boy and names him Hyakkimaru and eventually raises him as his own child. The story then follows Hyakkimaru as he embarks on a dangerous quest to find the 48 demons that his birth father made a deal with so that he can reclaim his body parts and become fully human.
We then meet Dororo, a young female thief who was raised as a boy by her parents due to the world becoming an uncaring and troubled place, in the hope that she would be emotionally stronger. The stroy then follows Dororo as she meets Hyakkimaru and they embark on the adventure together.
Dororo is a fun and action packed movie that's well worth watching. Full of energy, entertainment and a bit of comedy here and there it's a movie that you just shouldn't miss if you're an anime or manga fan!
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Author Niamh K Bond talks about the eagerly awaited release of Dororo on DVD. You can watch the dororo movie trailer on youtube.com!
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