longest running series
okay, so there is this super-long-running movie series from japan, called "otoko wa tsurai yo" or "it's tough being a man". the movies all, apparently, have something like the same plot: salesman main character comes to town, tries to get girl, loses girl, leaves town.
anyway, i decided to look it up on wikipedia again tonight, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otoko_wa_Tsurai_yo, and i found that it had been usurped in the record books by a series of movies about "wong fei-hung". over 99 with the same leading man.
but on the wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong_Fei_Hung includes a bunch of films that i'm not sure should be recognized as part of the official list... you know, movies where he appeared briefly as a character. likkkeee... "around the world in 80 days". the wong fei hung cinematography page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong_Fei-hung_filmography has the list of entries, and it's funny how a lot of movies we wouldn't recognize as being about wong fei hong in the west ("once upon a time in china") actually have original chinese names that include wong fei hong's name.
but it got me to wondering, how would the number of movies/tv shows of popular characters stack up to wong fei hong. if we counted the number of movies Einstein shows up in, for instance. or Lincoln.
anyway. life is fun. back to grading.
anyway, i decided to look it up on wikipedia again tonight, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otoko_wa_Tsurai_yo, and i found that it had been usurped in the record books by a series of movies about "wong fei-hung". over 99 with the same leading man.
but on the wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong_Fei_Hung includes a bunch of films that i'm not sure should be recognized as part of the official list... you know, movies where he appeared briefly as a character. likkkeee... "around the world in 80 days". the wong fei hung cinematography page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong_Fei-hung_filmography has the list of entries, and it's funny how a lot of movies we wouldn't recognize as being about wong fei hong in the west ("once upon a time in china") actually have original chinese names that include wong fei hong's name.
but it got me to wondering, how would the number of movies/tv shows of popular characters stack up to wong fei hong. if we counted the number of movies Einstein shows up in, for instance. or Lincoln.
anyway. life is fun. back to grading.