Trailer added for live-action film “Are You Ready? Hey You Girl!” starring Taishi Nakagawa and Erika Karata. Movie is based on a manga “Kakugo wa Iika Soko no Joshi” by Nana Shiiba. The film follows the live-action drama series version “Are You Ready? Hey You Girl!” which began airing on TBS from June 26, 2018. The live-action film version will be released October 12, 2018 in Japan.
Here’s new still images for upcoming movie “You Are the Apple of My Eye” starring Yuki Yamada and Asuka Saito. The film is a remake of popular 2011 Taiwanese film “You Are the Apple of My Eye.” The still images consists of Asuka Saito as Mai Hayase, a group still image of the 7 main cast members and a still image of Yuki Yamada as Kosuke Mizushima.
In addition, the release date of the movie is now set for October 5, 2018 in Japan.
Teaser trailer and poster added for movie “Eating Women” starring Kyoko Koizumi, Erika Sawajiri, Atsuko Maeda, Alice Hirose and Yu Yamada. Movie is based on “Taberu Onna” and “Zoku ・ Taberu Onna” by Tomomi Tsutsui and directed by Jiro Shono.
“Eating Women” will be released September 21, 2018.
Trailer #2 and poster added for upcoming movie “Killing For The Prosecution” starring Takuya Kimura and Kazunari Ninomiya. Movie is based on 2013 novel “Kensatsugawa no Zainin” by Shusuke Shizukui and directed by Masato Harada.
“Killing For The Prosecution” will be released August 24, 2018 in Japan.
Teaser trailer for movie “Yuki no Hana” starring Hiroomi Tosaka and Ayami Nakajo. The title of the film “Yuki no Hana” was also revealed today for the first time. Story for the film is motivated by 2003 song “Yuki no Hana” by Mika Nakashima and that song also appears in the teaser trailer as the theme song. Filming for “Yuki no Hana” took place in Tokyo and the country of Finland from February to June, 2018. “Yuki no Hana” is directed by Kojiro Hashimoto.
“Yuki no Hana” will be released February, 2019 in Japan.
Poster and trailer added for upcoming movie “Happy Mail” starring Kayo Noro, Ryoko Kobayashi, Terunosuke Takezai and Kazuma Sano. The film is set in the Akihabara area of Tokyo and follows four people who meet through a matchmaking site. The film recently screened at the Akihabara Film Festival (May 3-5, 2018).
“Happy Mail” will be released August 25, 2018 in Japan.
Here’s visuals of Wakana Aoi and Hayato Sano (‘M!LK’) for live-action film “Blue Summer.” The visuals has Wakana Aoi and Hayato Sano reenacting the covers for the original manga series which is “Ao-Natsu” by Atsuko Nanba.
“Blue Summer” will be released August 1, 2018 in Japan.
Trailer added for movie “Asako I & II” starring Masahiro Higashide and Erika Karata. Movie recently screened at the 71st Cannes Film Festival in the “In Competition” section. Movie is based on novel “Netemo Sametemo” by Tomoka Shibasaki. The trailer also features the movie’s theme song which is “River” by Tofubeats.
“Asako I & II” will be released September 1, 2018 in Japan.
Junichi Okada is cast for the lead role in live-action film “The Fable.” The movie is based on manga “The Fable” by Katsuhisa Minami. The manga won in the general category at the 2017 Kodansha Manga Award. Also cast for supporting roles for the film are Fumino Kimura, Koichi Sato, Mizuki Yamamoto, Ken Yasuda, Yuya Yagira, Osamu Mukai and Sota Fukushi. Story for the film follows an assassin who gets one year off and lives as a regular person in Osaka. Movie is directed by Kan Eguchi.
“The Fable” will be released sometime next year in Japan.
Haruma Miura and Masataka Kubota are cast in upcoming live-action film “Gintama 2” starring Shun Oguri. Haruma Miura will play Kamotaro Ito. He is a staff officer in the Shinsengumi. Masataka Kubota will play Bansai Kawakami. He is a music producer, but he also belongs to the armed Kiheitai group. Both Haruma Miura and Masataka Kubota did not appear in the 2017 film “Gintama.”
“Gintama 2” opens August 17, 2018 in Japan.