NYAFF XX Review: Yuichi Fukuda’s FROM TODAY, IT’S MY TURN!!, A Spirited, Knuckled-Up Live Action Comedy Niche Delight
Live-action adaptations of mangas and animes can be an acquired taste depending on what you enjoy. Yuichi Fukuda’s take on Gintama was a delight in 2017, though it still takes getting used to compared to the animated series’ own aesthetic. Nonetheless, Fukuda has made bank on his share of adapting certain IPs for the screen, and his latest bit of leg work now stems from the mind of mangaka Hiroyuki Nishimori with From Today, It’s My Turn!!, following from Fukuda’s prior legwork on the titular 2018 ten-episode NTV drama. Nishimori’s manga launched in 1988, so it only makes sense that his world, as now reincarnated through Fukuda’s lens, is set in the festive and bustling 1980s, a time when youth rebelled in a delinquent lifestyle. This time, we’re breaking out the school uniforms and pompadours, as Fukuda invites all to the town of 1980s Chiba, inaugurating the feature-length story of […]