Tokyo Ghoul to Get a Live Action Film Adaptation
This compilation is dedicated to upcoming Japanese movies.
The latest news about the live action adaptation
It’s been announced earlier that Toboso Yana’s successful ongoing manga with the same name is getting a live action movie remake after the anime version.
Even though the original manga’s story took place in England during the 19th century, the movie adaptation will follow a different setting; the story will take place in a fictitious Asian city where westerners and easterners are freely intermixed, 130 years later from the manga’s era as in 2020.
Starring Mizoshima Hiro (Hana Kimi, Tokyo DOGS) and Goriki Ayame (Mirai Nikki, Beginners!); the movie will tell the story of Shiori; a woman who cross-dresses as a man and changes her name to Kiyoharu in order to lead the massive Phantom Corporation since only males are allowed to take the reins of the Phantom hive family. Shiori has a seal in her right eye as a symbol of her contract with Sebastian; the demonic super butler who has flawless knowledge, unbeatable martial arts skills, spotless manners, perfect skills cooking skills, astonishing looks and more. He protects Shiori and watches over her but with a high price: he has to consume her soul.
Other casts to mention are: Mizuki Yamamoto as the maid Rin, Yuka as Shiori's aunt, Hanae, and fashion model Louis Kurihara as the undertaker Jay.
The movie is bound up to be Hiro’s comeback to the big screen after “Beck” three years ago. It also resembles one of his previous dramas “Mei-chan no Shitsuji” where he also played the role of a butler.
Film Footage released by NTV's Zip!
I haven’t read the manga or watched the anime so I have no idea about the original storyline. Needless to say, I have no worries about comparing this to previous productions. Thus, I am impatiently looking forward to see this. The trailer and setting seem interesting enough to make me give it a go.
Akumu-Chan gets a movie
It’s been announced that Kitagawa Keiko’s drama “Akumu-Chan” will hit the big screen with the title of “Akumu-Chan The Movie” in 2014.
Based on Onda Riku’s novel “Yume Chigai”, the drama was produced in fall 2012 by the screenwriter Omori Sumio to tell the story Yuiko who’s living a stressful life because of her nightmares and her homeroom teacher Ayami who can relate to her and understand her dreams. Despite the fact that the drama ended with average rating of 11,5%, it noticed a big popularity among young viewers in the range of 11-13 years old. In that age group; it reached 29% and even hit 35% ratings.
The movie’s story will still center on Yuiko and her classmates who are 6[sup]th [/sup]graders now. They welcome a new transfer student who all the class seemed to have dreams about him and he even appeared in Yuiko’s nightmares. It doesn’t take long before everyone starts idolizing him and fall for his charm which ultimately generate a major incident…
The actors from the drama are almost untouched; such as Kitagawa Keiko, Kimura, Gackt, Yuka and Kohinata Fumyo. The movie will also witness the addition of few other major roles played by Sato Ryuta and Hanjo Manami.
Shooting has already begun and is scheduled to wrap up in August but the movie’s exact release date in 2014 is yet to be announced.
Sadako 3D~the sequel
Here it comes; the sequel of the Sadako 3D.
Despite the fact that the first movie was a bit of a letdown for many viewers and even received many bad reviews from critics; it seems that the producers aren’t giving up and decided to bring Sadako 3D the sequel. This time, the movie will tell the story of Fuko Ando (Takimoto Miori) who is a psychology graduate student and has to take care of her four-year-old niece. She then notices a change in her niece’s behavior and found out that it has something to do with the cursed video that took place five years ago and her life becomes tangled with a series of horrifying events.
Seto Kojiis taking part in this as well as Yamamoto Yusuke and Ishihara Satomi who are bound to make an appearance in this.
Trailer:
The movie is to be released August the 13th in Japan.
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