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is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by
Minetarō Mochizuki is a Japanese manga artist. He won the Award for Excellence at the 4th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and the Award for General Manga at the 21st Kodansha Manga Award for ''Dragon Head''. Works * ''Zashiki Onna'' * '' Batāshi Kingyo'' * ''Dragon ...
. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''
Weekly Young Magazine is a Japanese weekly anthology magazine published in Tokyo each Monday by Kodansha. The magazine was started on June 23, 1980 and is targeted at the adult male ( ''seinen'') demographic. It was published bimonthly (under the title ), on the seco ...
'' from 1985 to 1988. A
live-action film Live action (or live-action) is a form of cinematography or videography that uses photography instead of animation. Some works combine live-action with animation to create a live-action animated film. Live-action is used to define film, video ga ...
adaptation, directed by
Joji Matsuoka is a Japanese film director. After studying filmmaking in the College of Art at Nihon University, he won an award for his independent short '' Inaka no hōsoku'' at the Pia Film Festival in 1984. He directed his first commercial feature, ''Bataas ...
, premiered in June 1990.


Media


Manga

Written and illustrated by
Minetarō Mochizuki is a Japanese manga artist. He won the Award for Excellence at the 4th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and the Award for General Manga at the 21st Kodansha Manga Award for ''Dragon Head''. Works * ''Zashiki Onna'' * '' Batāshi Kingyo'' * ''Dragon ...
, ''Bataashi Kingyo'' was serialized in Kodansha's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''
Weekly Young Magazine is a Japanese weekly anthology magazine published in Tokyo each Monday by Kodansha. The magazine was started on June 23, 1980 and is targeted at the adult male ( ''seinen'') demographic. It was published bimonthly (under the title ), on the seco ...
'' from 1985 to 1988. Kodansha collected its chapters in six ''
tankōbon is the Japanese term for a book that is not part of an anthology or corpus. In modern Japanese, the term is most often used in reference to individual volumes of a manga series: most series first appear as individual chapters in a weekly or ...
'' volumes, released from May 15, 1986, to September 12, 1988.


Live-action film

A
live-action film Live action (or live-action) is a form of cinematography or videography that uses photography instead of animation. Some works combine live-action with animation to create a live-action animated film. Live-action is used to define film, video ga ...
adaptation, directed by
Joji Matsuoka is a Japanese film director. After studying filmmaking in the College of Art at Nihon University, he won an award for his independent short '' Inaka no hōsoku'' at the Pia Film Festival in 1984. He directed his first commercial feature, ''Bataas ...
, and starring
Saki Takaoka is a Japanese actress. Her uncle is the jazz pianist Yōsuke Yamashita. She won the award for best actress at the 19th Hochi Film Award for ''Crest of Betrayal''. Filmography Film * ''cf girl'' (''cfガール'', 1989) * ''Swimming Upstream ...
,
Kazuko Shirakawa (born September 30, 1947) is a Japanese actress who is best known for her appearances in Nikkatsu's '' Roman Porno'' films during the 1970s. She appeared in Nikkatsu's first film in the ''Roman Porno'' series, ''Apartment Wife'' (1971), and is c ...
and , premiered on June 2, 1990.


Reception

The film was chosen as the third-best film at the 12th Yokohama Film Festival.
Joji Matsuoka is a Japanese film director. After studying filmmaking in the College of Art at Nihon University, he won an award for his independent short '' Inaka no hōsoku'' at the Pia Film Festival in 1984. He directed his first commercial feature, ''Bataas ...
won the Award for Best New Director,
Saki Takaoka is a Japanese actress. Her uncle is the jazz pianist Yōsuke Yamashita. She won the award for best actress at the 19th Hochi Film Award for ''Crest of Betrayal''. Filmography Film * ''cf girl'' (''cfガール'', 1989) * ''Swimming Upstream ...
won the award for Best Newcomer and Norimichi Kasamatsu won the award for Best Cinematography.


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* * 1990 directorial debut films 1990s Japanese films 1990s Japanese-language films Films directed by Joji Matsuoka Live-action films based on manga Manga adapted into films Seinen manga Swimming in anime and manga {{1990s-Japan-film-stub