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SALARYMAN KINTARO: Don’t Miss The Teaser For Ten Shimoyama’s Back-To-Back Live Action Adaptations Coming In 2025

Hiroshi Motomiya’s longstanding manga favorite, Salaryman Kintaro, is getting the live-action treatment come January with a two-part adaptation. Actor Nobuyuki Suzuki stars from a script by Shinichi Tanaka, for his own portrayal since the IP launched from the pages of Weekly Young Jump to TBS drama fruition in 1999, marking the first of multiple small screen iterations through 2010. Shimoyama’s Salaryman Kintaro takes off with Suzuki as a former biker gang leader and ex-tuna fisherman, who sheds his wild and reckless lifesfyle and takes the leap into the corporate arena as a salaryman. Part one, opening on January 10, will chronicle Kintaro’s “birth” as the inaugural first of the two releases. The sequel will focus on Kintaro as he tackles Japan’s corporate entities. Check out the first teaser below via Rights Cube!

NYAFF Review: SABU’s Introspective Oddity In Hard-Hitting JAM Delivers From ‘Misery’

Lee B. Golden III

I’m not a personal believer in Karma – as much fixing there needs in this world, that is. As for Japanese auteur SABU’s latest co-piloting with LDH Pictures, Jam, the concept is pretty feasible a plot device as far as film and storytelling go, though my only real concern was for how at least one character would meet his end here. It fell a bit short on my own expectations, but it’s a small nitpick, though, and it didn’t take much away from my own enjoyment throughout. Pensively etched in doses of wry comedy, brutal drama and action that hits hard where it hurts, Jam culminates around three key characters: A pop star looking to revive his career, an ex-con with a score to settle, and a wheelman desperate to save his girlfriend. Jam kicks off with a stimulating opening score that sets the tone for our first major: a […]

The Gloves Come Off In The New Trailer For ARAGURE 2: ROPPONGI VS. SHIBUYA

Lee B. Golden III

Take the life of a gangster-turned-store owner who loves to fight, throw him in Japan’s underground fighting tournament and what do you get? Well, here, you get a ferocious sequel in director Hajime Gonno‘s newest film, Aragure 2: Roppongi VS. Shibuya. Following the events of the first film released earlier in 2013, Gonno returns to direct from a screenplay once again by Masao Ikegaya with several returning cast members, including lead actor Nobuyuki Suzuki with Yuya Endo and Shuhei Nogae. Also starring are actors Tamiyasu Cho, Shingo Kawaguchi and Shingo Mizusawa, actress Shizuka Nakamura and actor Hiroaki Kitami. The film bows in Japan on February 22, 2014. SYNOPSIS: Seiya (Nobuyuki Suzuki) of Roppongi works at a store in Shibuya which is run by his senior. He doesn’t get used to working there and dislikes his job. He’s also unable to fight which he enjoys. Seiya becomes stressed by his situation. He is then asked […]