Behind-the-scenes production of super demon man

Good and evil are only between thoughts.

Go Gai Na Super Comic Works: The cartoonist Go Gai Na was born in Ishikawa Prefecture on September 6th, 1945. 1June, 972, his "Devilman" was serialized in Japanese weekly juvenile comics, and in July of the same year, an animation with the same name was released on NET TV (now Asahi TV). Different from the heroic story in the animation, the comic "Magic Man" cut into the realistic topic of "the collapse of punishing evil and promoting good" at that time, completely subverting the bipolar definition of "good and evil = god and demon" and adopting a brand-new story that integrates complexity and drama.

The great storm that affects the painting style of the younger generation: in order to protect their own interests, the mutant demon man is driven by the savage survival instinct hidden in his heart, and at the same time bears the cruel fate of fighting against the warriors who protect mankind. Go Gai Na serialized such a cartoon with profound theme and fierce fighting for the first time in Weekly Juvenile Comics. The mixed and distinctive characters he painted caused this cartoon to set off a revolutionary storm in the Japanese cartoon industry, and deeply influenced the creation of many younger cartoonists, such as Tatsuya Egawa and Hitoshi Iwaaki.

Twin Brothers and National Beauty Girl: This film can be said to be all young people in terms of actors, including the twin brothers Hisato Izaki and Yusuke Izaki of the popular group FLAME. In their early twenties, the two brothers are already active in film and television, music and advertising. Ayana Sakai, the actor of Shu Mei, got an electric shock for the second time. Before that, he participated in the special topic of "The Great Escape 2 Soul" (directed by Kinji Fukasaku and Kenta Fukasaku); In addition, in 2002, Shibuya Asuka, the eighth national beauty girl champion in Japan, and Fu Yongai, a Japanese supermodel, were handsome guys and beautiful women.

Entertainment blockbuster: Director Hiroyuki Nasu has passed his fate. 1976 After graduating from the Economics Department of Tokyo University, he joined the Japanese Life Film Company as an assistant director, and participated in the filming of works by Chusei Sone, Yukihiro Sawada and Tian Zhongdeng. 1982 made his debut, and two years later he made his mark with Crazy Jazz Academy. Shooting Crazy Jazz Academy was his first time with Machiko Nasu. After that, Machiko created Avatar under the cherry tree. She is the wife of the new pole and meridian of fog. The latest play is Sayuri Yoshinaga's11movie "The Year of the North".

It may not be possible to do it by manpower.

Detonating a blockbuster: Go Devilman of Gai Na is loved by comic book fans all over the world. Translated and published by more than a dozen countries, the sales volume exceeded 5 million copies, and it still has lasting enthusiasm for 32 years. The brand-new designs and complex stories in comics were once thought impossible to be made into realistic movies. But now the rapid development of film production technology makes the impossible a thing of the past forever. Now, Japan's first commercial blockbuster using new imaging technology to create special effects pictures has set off a blockbuster in the Japanese film industry.

Dare to bear the burden of visual effects: Who dares to bear the burden of making this film? It's Dongying Film Company. They have shot countless classic works, and Dongying Animation Company also has many avant-garde filmmakers who enjoy a high reputation in the Japanese animation industry. After years of experience and achievements, they finally made this difficult work through unremitting efforts. As an annual entertainment work in Japan, Super Demon Man also shoulders the responsibility of standard-bearer to reflect the level of Japanese special effects production, and the pressure of visual effects production department can be imagined.

There are many experts: since we want to make the impossible possible, we must find those imaginative special effects people. Hiroshi Butsuda, the director of special effects for Ma Jie, Bing Jian, the producer of special effects for many films, Yukichi Noguchi, a CG super master who has participated in Speed and Air Force One, and Naoki Miyahara, the original painting and painting director of Dragon Ball Z, all these world-renowned visual effects experts gathered together to make Super Magic Man and strive to make this cartoon-based film into Japanese special effects.

Carry forward the spirit of innovation: the integration of real scenes with computer special effects and animation is always a difficult problem. Dongying's shooting team and animation special effects team worked closely together, and it took 1 years to create a textured and fantastic screen picture. In the scene of the collapse of the church, they carefully designed the grotto model and shot it with a 15 times high-speed camera; At the same time, they also put a lot of effort into the combination of real scenes and animation. Although Katsuya Terada and Yi Guyou's designs of Demon Man and Setan are quite different from the original works, they still won the appreciation of Gai Na.

Beautiful man+special effects = super demon man

Go Gai Na, as the father of armored omnipotence, his other masterpiece Devil Man is full of violent and intuitive killing scenes, which is very suitable for commercial entertainment. However, due to the immature film technology, no one has dared to take it for many years. Now the Universal Man has been deified by the Japanese toy industry, and the super comic book Devil Man, which affects the younger generation, has finally been put on the big screen by Toyo Film Company.

In fact, the plot of this film is different from the original, which basically continues the main theme of the animated version and still adheres to the principle of "punishing evil and promoting good". As an annual entertainment blockbuster, the main energy of the film is spent on production, because they have to face a technical problem, how to better combine special effects, animation and real scenes. For the above reasons, the cast of this film is relatively weak.

This situation is somewhat similar to the story of Shu Shan (directed by Tsui Hark) which is familiar to domestic audiences, so we can say that Super Demon Man is a typical special effects film with more form than content. There is no doubt that this film will trigger a topic in Japan, and its revolutionary contribution to film special effects technology may also attract the attention of filmmakers all over the world, but whether the story of the film can also attract the audience is really worrying.