Drew Dietsch | Published
When I did Super Mario Bros Videos on this channel – you should watch as it’s a good video and in doing so it helps prevent me from becoming homeless – I’ve mentioned making a video about a real first video game feature film.
Before I do that, I have to say this is not about A wonderful mission to save Princess Peach! or Running Boy: Star Soldier No Secret. Not because I disliked animation or discounted animation, but because the productions that resemble TV specials smaller than adaptations of large features with actual budgets.
To that end, we’ve gone back to the 80s and watched what was one of the best video game movies ever, proving that there was no curse for the first video game.
We’re talking about the real first video game movie, Mirai Ninja.
Mirai Ninja It’s a 1988 NAMCO arcade game released only in Japan, so if you’ve never heard of it, it’s fair. In the game, you play as a resurrected robot ninja who must stop the resurrection of evil empires and leaders. It reminds me, I need to play Cyber ​​Shadow. The game is shaking.
anyway, Mirai Ninja Arcade games were developed with the intention of releasing companion feature films, so it wasn’t about adapting existing games to the film. Instead, the games and movies were made to directly complement each other.
I guess that’s the Japanese title of the movie Mirai Ninja: keigumo kinin gaiden, It has been translated Future Ninja: Stealth Joy Cloud Device Side Story. Congratulations to the Japanese and their amazing titles.
This film gets several different titles depending on where it was released. Over the UK pond, it was Roboninja. My wonderful neighbor in the north got Warrior. Sorry, Canada, you deserve a better title. And here in America, that’s how I came to know it, and it’s Cyber ​​Ninja But I’m a loser Wib so I’m going to call it that in that Japanese title.
Now, before you actually talk Mirai Ninja In itself, I think I need to fix the omitted from the previous video. in My video Guyber: Dark Hero – My beautiful kittens will not starve to death because I love to see – I have neglected to mention this term TokyoIt is used in live-action Japanese works and shows the large amount of special effects.
over time, Tokyo It has also become a term that applies to specific styles of special effects, such as those seen in Japanese television series. Kamen Rider or Super Centi series. and Mirai Ninja It’s almost pure Tokyo So that you can get. I could see the exploding sparks being seen over and over again.
The game and movie were produced together, Mirai Ninja The film intentionally tried to stay as faithful as possible for the arcade game. Film director and co-writer Keita Amemiya has also worked on character design for the game. All this leads to films that are no longer more faithful to the material from the video game source. The first stage of the video game is almost directly fitted to the sequence of opening credits, and even the music of the game sometimes gets a new orchestration of the film.
Therefore, the basic story of Mirai Ninja Even the crude things would seem very familiar to everyone…
The film begins with the text “In the past, in a distant future…” There is an evil empire that lures the white-covered princess. “The obligatory statement of Star Wars was influenced by samurai films, particularly Kurosaki Akira. Hidden fortressBefore anyone in the comment “actually” wants to “uh” me.
The “not Star Wars” part of the story concerns a soldier who died at the beginning of the film and is revived as a robot ninja by the Dark Overlord clan. This is our hero, Shiranui. He reaches the Fortress of the Dark Overlord and tries to regain his body before it, and the Princess is used to revive the Dark Overlord.
You won’t be much simpler than that, and it’s the best Mirai Ninja From a writing perspective. In 75 minutes, it doesn’t get complicated in itself. As Joe Bob Briggs puts it, “There’s no much plot to get in the way of the story.” This is about Robo Ninjas and Technobuddies, who shoot lasers and slice each other with swords.
This is the best thing actually Mirai Ninja. This is the insanity of Saturday morning cartoons rendered in the real world. And it’s just doing exactly what a video game is. There’s no need to stuff the jack into black to make it as wide and attractive as possible. It can reflect and embrace the simplicity of the video game, and tell a functionally melodramatic story about Siranui thanks to an audience who knows he is in fact a brother to another featured character. It’s nothing new, but it works.
And when you hang up the story and the character Mirai Ninjayou go ahead and you move on while I immerse myself in Edo-style attack walkers and the big evil descendants that become my man, birds, and the resurrected dark overlord’s ship. When you try to sneak up on him, he has a tentacle of his head that stabs you! Shoki rules.
Shiranai Rule. Mirai Ninja Shit rules.
And the only reason why more people didn’t feel that way when they returned to that way Mirai Ninja It was released in 1988 because the film stayed in Japan as the arcade games were not exported to other countries. There were home videos and English releases on VHS in the 90s, and DVD releases in Japan in the 2000s, but no loving recovery or better releases on Blu-Ray.
And that’s necessary for so many reasons. When people lament the “curse of video game movies” that has plagued so many adaptations for decades Super Mario Brosthey need to know Mirai Ninja. The first live-action video game film was not cursed at all. In fact, it was produced as much as it returned in 1988.
Keita Amemiya continues with similar instructions Tokyo Movies like Zeiram2 Kamen Rider Movies, and another movie that I 100% make a video if this works. Since Mirai Ninja It is his first theatrical feature and its preservation is necessary for his films.
And it was the first live action video game movie, and not Super Mario Bros Only that fact should be given Mirai Ninja Admiration, respect, and appropriate modem home video releases for viewers around the world.
You can find a copy of Mirai Ninja It’s here in Cyberspace, and hopefully we can look forward to the day when we can make a new version of high resolution that we all love. The first true video game movie deserves less than that.
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