The Brooklyn Rail talks with Death Note director Shusuke Kaneko about adapting Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s hit manga for the big screen:
BR: On top of the weighty moral question of murder, the Death Note manga and films feature police surveillance, media as public morality, empowered sons and helpless fathers, doppelgangers, and more. Did you find these aspects of the story to have genuine metaphoric resonance or did you see them as typical manga tropes?
SK: The original comic book itself had a lot of influence of – it reflected issues that surround contemporary Japanese society so I don’t think it’s as metaphoric as much as something that’s really going on. There’s a big contradiction of the law system in Japan and based on that the Japanese people are frustrated everyday and those kinds of things are pretty much reflected in the comic book. I totally agree with that and had my own frustrations and had a chance to reflect that in my films.
(Via Anime News Network)
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September 13th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
never read the manga, or seen the anime, but the movie was alright. i say alright because i tend to dislike movies where i don’t like the main character. my brother told me the second movie was good.