Warner Bros. Japan has unveiled the first official trailer for director Shimako Sato’s Onmyoji-0, the latest adaptation of Baku Yumemakura’s longstanding novels. The campaign is also pulling back the curtain off its casting line-up, featuring actor Kento Yamazaki in the title role.
Sato, whose credits partly include the Eko Eko Azarak and Unfair films, as well as 2008’s Takeshi Kaneshiro starrer, K-20: Legend Of The Mask, penned the script under Yumemakura’s stewardship with Jujutsu consultation by essayist and author Nanami Kamon. Together, the team have crafted an all-new original story that focuses on the early days of Abe no Seimei in his studies to become an Onmyoji – a monastic practitioner of magic, mystics, astrology and divination.
Onmyoji-0 marks a new career addition to Yamazaki who currently fronts director Shinsuke Sato’s Kingdom franchise based on Yasuhisa Hara’s hit manga series, as well as Takashi Miike’s live-action JoJo’s Bizzare Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable, and Netflix series “Alice In Borderland” which is currently due for a third season. The film also stars Nao (Sweet My Home, #Manhole), Masanobu Ando (The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn’t Kill), Nijiro Murakami (Tokyo Revengers 1 & 2), Mitsuto Itagaki (And Yet, You Are So Sweet), Jun Kunimura (Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction, The Roundup: No Way Out), Kazuki Kitamura (From The End Of The World), and Kaoru Kobayashi (Kubi).
Onmyoji-0 opens in Japan theaters on April 19 from Warner Bros. Japan. Check out the new trailer below!
