It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Shintaro Ishihara, the older brother of Yujiro Ishihara.
The GIS members are present in the movies Sensenfukoku and Angels & Demons; in the videogame Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield and in the expansion Athena Sword.
Every week, Tokyo MX airs the press conferences of Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara.
Shintaro Ishihara | ShintarÅ Tokita | Nobuteru Ishihara | Kaori Ishihara | Hirotaka Ishihara | Yujiro Ishihara | Shintaro Tsuji | Shintaro Kimura | ShintarÅ Asanuma |
Both this film and the earlier (1956) version by Nikkatsu, Crazed Fruit, were based on a novel of the same name by Shintaro Ishihara.
Born in Zushi, Kanagawa, he is the second son of Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara, and brother of politicians Nobuteru Ishihara and Hirotaka Ishihara.
According to Anime News Network (ANN), at the New Manga Creators Awards ceremony Kazuhiko Torishima, senior managing director and editor, said he wanted "new manga authors to produce manga that would blow away Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara" and Masahiko Ibaraki, editor-in-chief of its third editorial department, added that he did not want the increased regulations to have a chilling effect on their content and they would still feature anything that was exciting.