We were watching a Japanese TV show the other day. The show features segment showing the origins of all kinds of Japanese pop culture items. This episode the had a retrospective on “Ninja Hattori-Kun.
He’s a cute ninja character for kids, star of many cartoons and manga. Very cute looking. Well it turns out that they had a live action version on TV during the sixties. In it Hattori-kun is played by a man in a mask.
The result is almost frightening! I wonder who thought this live action show would be better than a cartoon.
How many kids had nightmares after watching this?
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hattori is so cute
I agree. I had no idea ninjas could be so adorable.
i love hattori i used to watch this cartoon all the time its so cute and adorable..and actually u get to learn a lot of stuff from there.
I’ve never really watched it, since it’s only in Japanese. I have seen it while my nieces were watching it though. It looks funny.
I think the real action series are very good indeed. Just think how beautiful would be if this series could be realized with actual technologies (CGI, better costumes etc etc..).
They did do a recent live action movie, but unfortunately it wasn`t so good.
there was a movie remake with Shingo from SMAP
http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/ninja-hattori-kun-anime-and-live-action/
I saw that movie. Unfortunately it wasn’t so good.:(