Results tagged “manga”

And so yet another Americanized 3D version of an old animation classic crashes upon us. This week Imagi Studio's version of "Astro Boy," the superhero story that originated as a manga in 1952 by Osamu Tezuka, sees its worldwide release. And with the release of the movie, a huge marketing carousel filled with toys, books and video games starts spinning as well. It raises some questions on how to actually best do our old classics justice.

This week Shanghai Cinemas are pleasing us with a new movie from the man called "Hong Kong's King of Comics", Wong Yuk-Long, also known as Tom Wong. Therefore, we'll use this week's Cinematheque as an excuse to go through some 漫画 (manhua) history.

Screw Shakespeare and forget that Chinese opera business - right now, preparations are underway to bring a sing-song version of Karl Marx's Das Kapital to the Shanghai theater.