> Re: Comic Book Aesthetic Two of the most interesting films for this are Oshima Nagisa's Ninja Bugeicho (Band of Ninja), which takes the original manga's still images and "animates" them through camera techniques. Lee Myung-se's Nowhere to Hide, a recent Korean thriller. The director commissioned a well-known comic artist to "storyboard" the script for him. So there is an original screenplay, and then a comic rendering (which looks exactly like a Japanese manga, if you've seen those), and the final film definitely shows traces of this process. Markus A. M. Nornes Program in Film and Video Studies Department of Asian Languages and Cultures University of Michigan 2512 Frieze Building Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 Phone: 734-647-2094 FAX: 734-936-1846 ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu