[ferre_kun]

Originally Posted by Swabjob

Almost half of you are wrong. Live-action is just a film shot on either video or film. The opposite is animation, which is either drawn or computer generated.

Maybe we should get the term straight first. like swabjob said, live action is not only real people movie/series adapted from anime. the term live action refers to works that are acted out by flesh-and-blood actors, as opposed to animation. But it is possible to be made based on each other. Animation made from live action (yes, it's rare), and live action made from animation.

Source:
- bigpedia
- wikipedia

but i also agree with what most people think here. that what the first poster means was live action movies adapted from anime. Like DBZ, DeathNote, Nodame Cantabile, and any other anime adaptation movies/series.

i'll add Saikano. awesome, but contains adult scene XD and a bit altered from the anime.
Another one is Cutie Honey/Cutey Honey. I won't give you info about this one, because i haven't (read:not interested) to watch this live action XD
Gokusen is like GTO in opposite sex. And personally, i like Gokusen live action more than GTO live action.

on a side note, before the stephen chow's hollywood's adaptation version of Dragonball, there was earlier adaptation made by hongkong in 1989 entitled Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins. But the hongkong version was more to comedy than action.

But my favorite live action movies adapted from anime are:
Devilman



and Casshern


Those two (devilman and casshern) are amazingly made by current technology.
The story is not shallow too (though i was a bit disappointed with devilman's ending XD ), but casshern was like sugooooi

i highly recommend casshern, it's not like the other regular anime adaptation-life action movies ;)
...if only japanese can make more live action adaptation like those..