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As with any art form, however, it’s not all amazing work, but how the hell do you cut through the crap and find the gold? Well here’s a list to get you going. But what of the source material? Sure, you’re acutely aware that anime is more than “just Japanese cartoons” and that it’s a diverse, poetic, and deeply artistic branch of cinema and TV. That critical gaze spans across the anime genre, too, thanks to live-action remakes of Japanese classics like Ghost In The Shell and Netflix's Death Note. Then, there are the times it doesn’t go so well – like Spike Lee’s completely unnecessary remake of Park Chan-wook’s South Korean revenge masterpiece Oldboy (although watching Josh Brolin chew the scenery for 104 minutes is not without its charm). Sometimes, the Hollywood treatment does a good job – like when Scorsese turned Hong Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs into his Oscar-winning The Departed.
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Especially when it comes to making English language versions of brilliant moments in Asian cinema.
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Let’s face it, Hollywood is no stranger to remakes.
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