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I agree with you exactly
This live action is good compare to some of the others I've seen

compare to Initial D live, Wangan Midnight live is much better

All those bashing on Initial D, yeah it was a bad interpretation of the ID story, but it was still a great movie. A movie can be good even if it's not accurate guys.

but ID was too far off

1. they have HK ppl attitude, not Jap
2. the story was too farfetched, using nakazato to replace keisuke
3. bad impression of bunta, BAD!

but in terms of WM, everything's pretty accurate. treat it as if it was only the first volume of the manga

I disagree. The only upside to the ID movie was that the cars were interpreted correctly. Other then that, it seemed like the directors were trying to fit all the events leading up to 3rd Stage into one movie. The story was horrible yes, and the entire movie wasn't even Japanese. Not to mention that Natsuki was ugly. The WM movie was a lot better, it followed the story better, they changed a few things here and there but at least they didn't rush things and only took it up to episode 7 or 8. The cars in Wangan didn't exactly look like the anime though. During the last scene where Akio crashes, if you look carefully whilst the car is upside down, the burning car has a different set of wheels. As for the characters, they were done well, except for Akio's teacher, i didn't like her at all. Reina was fine but I didn't really like her either.

I like how Natsuki was the only Japanese person in the movie and she's the "ugly" one. I also see lots of people saying Reina and such were ugly too... so it's hilarious, in my opinion.

My only complaints about the ID movie were that they f**ked up the gauges (one scene, they have the speedometer sputter and die LOL) and that it's in Chinese so I can't understand it. Otherwise, I enjoyed it. Though I enjoyed Wangan more... but that might be because the main characters are both Kamen Riders, and because it's in Japanese so I actually know what's going on.

Anne Suzuki is very pretty, what are you talking about fool?

erm any subs or subtitles yet? even its a srt file?

[N1] Wangan Midnight the Movie (853x480 H264 6ch AAC).srt is not yet complete

If there were, do you really think you'd have to ask? Look where you are. If there were subs available, they'd be readily present in the thread and there would be TENS of posts going OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SUBS <3 <3 <3.

But there aren't.

So use your brain. No, nothing's available yet. Be patient for someone to do it, or learn Japanese. I suggest the latter, it's quite handy.

On Wangan Midnight - The Movie:

A friend bought the DVD in Japan and I watched it over the weekend. I personally liked the movie a lot. The cars were nice, even though they were not 100% accurate to the manga or anime. I think the biggest failure was the wrecked Devil Z was a 2+2. It's like, they didn't even try. As a car-lover, I had a blast looking at all the beautiful cars in the movie.

The characters were good. Their personalities may not be the ones we see in the anime, but I thought it was interesting to see some differences. In fact, these "live action movies" are only interesting when there are some differences to the original work. It would be boring to see the same story over and over again. (The manga, anime, and movie versions of Death Note were all different, and each one was successful in their own rights. Now THAT is interesting, and well done!)

I think the most successful aspect of Wangan Midnight - The Movie was that it managed to capture that certain "feel" of the racing world, of the street racing culture, of the reasons behind why each character is going at it on Wangan. This connection between the acting and audience is what makes it a better interpretation of the original Wangan Midnight made in the 90s. I'm not saying the original movie was bad, because I liked that movie too.

I enjoyed and respect each of the interpreted movies of Wangan Midnight. It shows a lot of creativity from the director and actors of the movie. (This is the same reason why I enjoyed watching Initial D - The Movie.)

Looks like its been released onto youtube, though no subtitles!

Its alright, It has some major flaws, but its an improvement from the 1991 junk

@Metallic280Z:
nice, someone's finally uploaded it

but I still prefer the original blu-ray or mp4 quality

The quality is pretty good for youtube I think. I wish it had some subs so I can compare a bit more, just have to wait months for that I assume...

What? Natsuki from the ID movie is ugly? What the hell?

Just saw the movie. It was pretty good. There were many differences rather than similarities such as Reina driving an R34 (which fits her quite well IMO), Jun Kitami AKA "The Tuner from Hell" is missing , Akio and Tatsuya have longer hair, Ko-Chan drives and FD with a big wing rather than an FC with normal wing and his fro doesn't look like a fro, and Akio drove a modified Z32 rather than a what I assume is a stock Z31.

This post has been edited by RSanYon on Jan 12 2010, 04:29 PM

Kamen Rider Zeto? Daburu Zeto Kicku?

'Sup for people who don't know in case.


^Yuichi/Zeronos/Akio



^Kazuki/Daisuke Kazama-Kamen Rider Drake/Tatsuya Shima

i lmao-ed at the almost end of the movie, when devil z was burning..IT WAS DEFINITELY A DIFFERENT CAR! LMAO look at the wheels for sure...not even an eightspoke lol

Yeah at the end of the movie the Devil Z becomes a Devil Mitsubishi Lancer.
Oh well at least the didn't wreck a Z.

if you freeze frame it where the Z crashes its a toy car

Looking at those two photographs, Kato really did change from Kabuto to Wangan Midnight. You smoking, man?!

i have no idea what the matter is with u ppl. the car at the end IS a z just with defferent wheels. plus theres no sequel to this its all over. the film had no attachment to the tv series.

This post has been edited by Lorenzo* on Jan 17 2010, 02:43 PM

If you say there's no sequel, then you're a naughty-naughty person who didn't stay in the theater to watch the credits. If you had, you would've known that there's a sequel.

Also, if you freeze-frame on the car at the end, it's not a Z. Sorry, but I own a Z, and that's not a damn Z. It has a similar enough shape to pass as one, but it's something mocked up so they didn't have to make a real Z explode.

Lorenzo just got PWNED by N1.

It's true, he does own a Z.

Thinking about asking Takenoko from TV-Nihon if he and the group is willing to sub it. I might get banned or something, but it's worth it since most of their subs is better than OoZ.

This post has been edited by JZX100 on Jan 19 2010, 08:51 PM

overall a good movie.

id do reina... and that fact that the made her drive a R34 instead of a R32 like normal is a plus.

This post has been edited by BNR34NISMO on Jan 19 2010, 09:16 PM

Noooo ... the beloved Devil Z sacifice to save the Black bird ... wat a unexpected twist of the story ...