Live Action Titles

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Live Action: (Type) A term used to describe and flag non-animated movies and films. It is common for a popular manga (or manhwa) series to be animated, but some titles are rereleased as live-action stories. Examples include the animated series Nodame Cantabile and Nodame Cantabile (Live Action), and Moyashimon and Moyashimon (Live Action).

Title Rating Synopsis
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Escuela de Escorpiones (Spanish) Watch See Volcano High
F

Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid Zenyasai ~ Light novel no yoake ~
Unevaluated This a documentary-style TV special that aired on WOWWOW. The special consisted of Shimokawa Mikuni (OP/ED, every FMP! anime) doing narrations for the program and interviews with Gatoh Shouji (Author, FMP!) and Takemoto Yasuhiro (Director, Fumoffu, TSR!), as well as some footage of the staff at Kyouto Animation hard at work.
G
Girls in Summer Dresses Watch See Natsufuku no Shoujo-tachi

Gokiburi-tachi no Tasogare
Watch In a trashy bachelor pad lived a colony of roaches who are able to roam freely for food or for games. Because of the homeowner being gentle with the roaches, they have no fear of traps, spray, or being stepped on. However when the homeowner starts bringing over a woman over, life starts to change for the roaches who are already living an easy life.

Gokusen (Live Action)
Buy Gokusen tells a story about the young rookie teacher Yamaguchi Kumiko who is brave enough to accept as her first teaching assignment a position at the toughest high school in the district. While appearing to be very young and cute, she has to hide the fact that she is the daughter of a Yukusa leader, and that all of her brothers are active members in the Yukusa. But it is her family background that helps her to deal with the problems that occur at school in her own special way...

Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon
Watch Sonny Chiba is Golgo 13 in this hardboiled adaptation of Japan's all-time bestselling manga comic book. As the world's #1 hitman, he is hired to kill Hong Kong's underworld kingpin. Standing in his way is a relentless cop (Callan Leung) determined to stop him at all costs. Assignment: Kowloon is a violent crime thriller loaded with stylish shootouts and martial arts action.
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Hwasango (Korean) Watch See Volcano High
K

Kami no Shizuku Wine
Unevaluated A story about a young man named Shizuku Kanzaki, who discovers the beauty of wine after his father, a famous wine critic, dies and leaves an unusual and cryptic will for his son: a description of 12 wines whom he considered to be the best in the world, and even dares to compare them to Jesus Christ’s disciples.
Kyashan: La Rinascita (Italian) Buy See Casshern: The Last Day on Earth
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L Change the WorLd (live-action)
Rent L is recruited to save humanity from a deadly virus that wiped out a whole Thai village and his friend F. His oponents are K and a twisted environmental group who want to "cleanse" the world of it's excess population with the deadly virus. His accomplices are two young children - a English speaking boy who's the only survivor of the virus infected Thai village; and a Japanese school girl who's the child of the Professor who developed the virus antidote. His FBI partners are Watari who dies early in the show, and Sugura who joins later as a brief comical decoy for L on the run.
Les Gouttes de Dieu Unevaluated See Kami no Shizuku Wine
Lの本当の秘密 (Japanese) Rent See L Change the WorLd (live-action)
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My life without her... Unevaluated See Boku no Katsu Seni Kanojo no...
N

Natsufuku no Shoujo-tachi
Watch In 1945, the second and third-year students of a Hiroshima girls' school are taken away to work in war factories. The remaining 220 girls of the first year try to make the best of their new-found status as the only teenagers in an almost deserted town, even amid the deprivations of wartime. On the 7th of August, an American bomber changes their lives forever. Broadcast on the 43rd anniversary of Hiroshima in memory of "the girls who lost their lives to the atom bomb."

Nodame Cantabile (Live Action)
Buy At a top music academy in Japan, Shinichi Chiaki's arrogance is matched only by his top-notch piano playing. But when Chiaki and the teacher get into a fight, he's demoted to the reject class. Chiaki is left to pursue his dream of being a composer while surrounded by a bunch of loser musicians and one annoying girl, Noda Megumi, who has proclaimed herself Chiaki's girlfriend. Nodame (Noda Megumi) is a clueless, dirty girl who doesn't know how to cook, clean, or even has a sense of value. What she has is the ability to replay a song after she has heard it. She latches onto Chiaki and together they might be able to help each other overcome their own personal problems.
Genre
Action(11) Action Comedy(3) Adventure(3) Comedy(11)
Comedy Fantasy(1) Drama(10) Horror(2) Mystery(1)
Parody(2) Romance(4) Suspense(1) Tragedy(2)
Setting
Fantasy(4) Historical(1) Modern(18) Sci-Fi(3)
Demographic
Josei(2) Kid at heart(2) Shounen(1)
Style
Acquired Taste(1) Dark(3) Korean Wave(2) Weird(2)
Characters and Their Abilities
Artificial Girls(2) Mahou Shoujo(1)
Story Elements and Location
Coming of Age(1) Competition(1) Depression(2) Epic(1)
Fighting(4) Friendship(3) High School(5) Martial Arts(4)
Mecha(1) Music(3) Police(2) School Comedy(1)
Slice of Life(2) Soul Mates(1) Spiritual(1) Supernatural(2)
Swordplay(2) War(3)
Keywords
Assassin(s)(1) Gun-action(3) Reboot(2)
Potentially Objectionable
Violent(4) Vulgar(1)
Type
Movie(10) ONA(1) OVA(1) TV(11)
TV Special(2)
Release Year
2019(1) 2011(1) 2009(2) 2008(5) 2007(2) 2006(1) 2005(2) 2004(4)
2001(1) 1993(1) 1990(1) 1988(1) 1987(1) 1977(1)
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