Mention Kazuo Koike, a respected Japanese 81-year-old manga artist, now think of an old Admiral who plays the ship girl page game every day and searches for DMM love action movies, but Kazuo Koike has been insisting on creating in the previous decades, and created "The BeltEd Wolf", a classic Japanese manga that has influenced many European and American movies, and now the famous Hollywood producer Stephen Paul announced that he will make a Hollywood remake of "The Belt Wolf in Those Little Hands" in 2017. And the promise that the cast will basically use Japanese.
Masaru Tamura and the 1993 version of the Belt Wolf movie
"The Wolf with the Belt" is a period drama manga set in the Edo period, the protagonist of the story, Bai Yidao, was hated and framed by Yanagi after competing with Yanagi Ichigo in front of the Shogun's Imperial Court and winning the position of gongyi jie, resulting in the death of his family and wife, and took his only son to worship Daigoro and went into exile. On the way to exile, the father and son constantly fight with the killers sent by the Liusheng clan to kill the mouth, on the other hand, Bai Yidao accepted the Assassin mission at the cost of "one kill five hundred and two" to raise funds, and purchased a large number of weapons and bombs to avenge the Liusheng family. This is the story of a dad who takes his children on a quest for revenge.
After the comic version of "Belt Wolf" was published in Europe and the United States, this kind of father taking revenge with his children was very popular, and the story setting of the later famous movie "Kill Bill" was also influenced by "Belt Wolf". This remake is the 1993 film "The Wolf with the Belt in Those Little Hands" starring Masakazu Tamura. Because the story of the banded wolf has a strong background in Japanese history, the film's producers promised to use Japanese actors in the basic cast.