Charade, Stagecoach, Wuthering Heights also get manga in Japan
Manga Humphrey Bogart
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The Japanese company Mangabank is
adapting the classic Hollywood movies
Casablanca (1942),
Charade (1963),
Stagecoach (1939), and
Wuthering Heights (1939) into manga to inaugurate a series of DVD/manga sets on November 17. Each movie has been adapted into a 128-page manga, which will sell with a Japanese-subtitled DVD for 1,380 yen (about US$12.01). Acclaimed manga creator
Kenshi Hirokane (Human Crossing, Buchou Shima Kosaku) is supervising the artists drawing the adaptations.
Manga Hepburn
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These films starred some of the most famous actors and actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age, including Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman,
John Wayne,
Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, and Laurence Olivier. They also featured some of the world's most acclaimed movie creators such as writer/director
John Huston, director John Ford, and composers
Henry Mancini and Alfred Newman.
Manga Heathcliff
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The copyrights for these films have expired in Japan, which allows anyone in the country to release them under public domain or adapt them into other media. All but one of them are still copyrighted in the United States due to The Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998. (
Charade has been in the public domain in the United States and elsewhere for years due to a legal technicality.)
Source: AV Watch
