Teaser trailer added for live-action movie “Miyamoto kara Kimi e” starring Sosuke Ikematsu and Yu Aoi. Movie is based on manga series “Miyamoto kara Kimi e” by Hideki Arai (“Come On Irene“) and directed by Tetsuya Mariko (“Destruction Babies“). The film also follows 2018 TV Tokyo drama series “Miyamoto kara Kimi e” which also stars Sosuke Ikematsu and has Tetsuya Mariko as its director.
“Miyamoto kara Kimi e” will be released September 27, 2019 in Japan.
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Main trailer added for live-action film “Kaguya-sama: Love Is War” starring Sho Hirano and Kanna Hashimoto. Movie is based on manga series “Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensaitachi no Renai Zunosen” by Aka Akasaka and directed by Hayato Kawai (“Nisekoi: False Love“).
“Kaguya-sama: Love Is War” will be released September 6, 2019 in Japan.
Teaser trailer added for movie “Walking Man” starring Shuhei Nomura. In addition, supporting cast has been added. Now cast in supporting roles are Mio Yuki, Shuji Kashiwabara, ICONIQ, Makoto Togashi, Hosshan, Makiko Watanabe and Renji Ishibashi. The film has hip-hop artist/actor Anarchy making his debut as a feature film director.
“Walking Man” is now scheduled to be released October 11, 2019 in Japan.
Trailer #2 added for upcoming live-action film “Tokyo Ghoul ‘S’” starring Masataka Kubota, Shota Matsuda and Maika Yamamoto. Movie is based on manga series “Tokyo Ghoul” by Sui Ishida. Meanwhile, the movie’s theme song has been revealed which is “Introduction” by Japanese rock band “Queen Bee.” A photo of the band is below.
“Tokyo Ghoul ‘S'” will be released July 19, 2019 in Japan.
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Teaser trailer for live-action film “The Flowers of Evil” starring Kentaro Ito and Tina Tamashiro. Movie is based on manga series “Aku no Hana” by Shuzo Oshimi and directed by Noboru Iguchi. Meanwhile, below are two teaser posters for the movie. The teaser posters are of Kentaro Ito as Takao Kasuga and Tina Tamashiro as Sawa Nakamura.
“The Flowers of Evil” has now been slotted for release September 27, 2019 in Japan.
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Trailer added for movie “Aesop’s Game” starring Ruka Ishikawa, Hiroe Igeta and Guama. The film is directed by Shinichiro Ueda, Naoya Asanuma and Yuya Nakaizumi who all worked together on 2018 film festival favorite “One Cut of the Dead.” Shinichiro Ueda directed “One Cut of the Dead,” while Naoya Asanuma and Yuya Nakaizumi worked as crew members on that film. Story for “Aesop’s Game” involves three very different girls who somehow cheats and revenges each other.
“Aesop’s Game” will have its world premiere as the opening film of this year’s Skip City International D-Cinema Festival (July 13-21, 2019) and then have its general release August 16, 2019 in Japan.
Bakarhythm is cast in movie version “Fictitious Girl’s Diary.” The film is based on 2013 novel “Kaku OL Nikki” by Bakarhythm and was previously adapted into 2017 YTV drama series “Fictitious Girl’s Diary.” Bakarhythm also wrote the original screenplay for the movie version. In the film, Bakarhythm will play Hidetomo Masuno. His character is a female officer worker. Bakarhythm doesn’t talk or look like a woman, but his character is accepted as a woman in the woman.
“Fictitious Girl’s Diary” will be released sometime in 2010 in Japan.
Teaser trailer added for mystery film “Inakunare Gunjo” starring Ryusei Yokohama and Marie Iitoyo. Movie is based on 2014 novel “Inakunare Gunjo” by Yutaka Kono (“Sagrada Reset“) and directed by Akina Yanagi. The film is set on a mysterious island and follows two former childhood friends who meet again as teens.
“Inakunare Gunjo” will be released September 6, 2019 in Japan.
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English subtitled teaser trailer added for movie “My Father, the Bride” starring Honoka Matsumoto and Itsuji Itao. Movie is written and directed by Momoko Fukuda. In the film, Toka (Honoka Matsumoto) returns to her hometown to find her father Seiji (Itsuji Itao) wishing to live as a woman.
“My Father, the Bride” will be released September 20, 2019 in Japan.
Tatsuya Fujiwara is cast in live-action film “Kaiji Final Game.” The film is a sequel to 2009 film “Kaiji” and 2011 film “Kaiji 2.” “Kaiji Final Game” is based on manga series “Kaiji” by Nobuyuki Fukumoto and he also wrote an original screenplay for the movie. Sota Fukushi, Nagisa Sekimizu, Mackenyu Arata and Kotaro Yoshida are cast in supporting roles for the movie. Toya Sato who directed the first two “Kaiji” films also returns to direct “Kaiji Final Game.”
Filming for “Kaiji Final Game” is already finished and the movie will be released January 10, 2020 in Japan.
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