GINTAMA: YOSHIWARA IN FLAMES Teaser Re-Ignites The Blaze Online!
“The sun is up” in 2026!
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BOMB: Yuki Yamada, Jiro Sato, And A City Under Siege In The Official Trailer
Opening in Japan on October 31!
WIND BREAKER Throws Down With A First Teaser For The Live-Action Adaptation
WIND BREAKER is coming to theaters in December!
FRONTLINE Trailer: Shun Oguri Tackles A Luxury Cruiseliner In Pandemic Peril
The movie opens in Japan on June 13
BOMB Teaser Seethes With Suspense For Akira Nagai’s Latest
The countdown has begun for the new psycholgical thriller coming in October!
ALL YOU NEED IS KILL: WB Japan Revives Hit Manga For Animated Feature Relaunch
Get ready to #LiveDieRepeat once more in the new upcoming animated feature from Warner Bros. Japan!
BOMB: WB Japan Teases Explosive New Thriller From Akira Nagai As Production Begins
Production is firmly underway for Bomb, a new psychological suspense thriller from director Akira Nagai (Character). Warner Bros. Japan made the announcement on Monday including a super teaser in their rollout of casting news. Actors Yuki Yamada (Godzilla Minus One), Sairi Itoh (Don’t Call It Mystery), Shota Sometani (Cells At Work), and Atsuro Watabe (Masquerade Night), will star in the film. Bomb is based on Wu Seung-ho’s award-winning novel which follows the efforts of Tokyo’s Metro Police negotiator, as he is tasked with investigating a slew of bomb threats throughout the city, and a detained drunken vagrant who says he can predict when the bombs will go off. The film additionally reunites Yamada with Shota Okada (Tokyo Revengers trilogy) who is producing the new film. Principal photography is expected to wrap in March for a 2025 release date to be announced from Warner Bros. Japan. Check out the hype teaser […]
FRONTLINE: Get A First Look At Japan’s New Dramatic Covid-19 Thriller Coming In 2025
Just Being Alive Is Love director Sekine Kosai is returning in the new year with pandemic thriller, Frontline. The film stars Shun Oguri, Tori Matsuzaka, Sosuke Ikematsu, and Yosuke Kubozuka, from a script by Jun Masumoto who also planned and produced the pic. The story takes its cues from the events of February 2020 and follows the efforts of DMAT commander and his team to solve Japan’s imminent health crisis that looms involving the arrival of 3,711 passengers aboard a luxury cruise ship – ten of whom were confirmed at first to have symptoms relevant to the disease at the root of the pandemic. Warner Bros. Pictures has released a making-of trailer for Frontline which you can view below ahead of the film’s June 2025 release. Check it out below along with the film’s first poster.
CELLS AT WORK: Mei Nagano And Takeru Satoh Fight Back Against Formidable Ills In The Official Trailer!
The official trailer is out for Hideki Takeuchi’s long-awaited adaptation of the hit manga and anime, Cells At Work. Best of all apart from the featuring of Mei Nagano and Takeru Satoh is the inclusion of other key characters, and now with actors Abe Sadawo and Mina Ashida adding the apropos human element to the stakes. The film, as fans of Akane Shimizu’s IP know it, embarks on an Osmosis Jones-style adventure of a red blood cell and her travails at maintaining the human body, alongside all the requisite cells needed – including the bacteria and virus-batling white blood cells and T-cells, and the healing cells to form clots. I love Takeuchi’s approach already, and not that I wasn’t already sold on the teaser from a while back, but this trailer makes a great case for recommended viewing. Cells At Work arrives in Japan cinemas from Warner Bros. Japan on […]
CELLS AT WORK: Mei Nagano And Takeru Satoh Battle To Save The Human Body In The First Teaser!
As much as I try to keep up with Japanese news outlets, a lot of updates tend to take me by surprise. Maybe it’s just a time zone thing, I’m not sure, but my day started with a delightful look at Cells At Work, the latest live-action adaptation from Hideki Takeuchi, director of the Fly Me To The Saitama and Thermae Romae movies. “Cells at Work!” is a bestseller manga series written and illustrated by Akane Shimizu, published in Kodansha’s “Monthly Shonen Sirius.” This innovative series, which brings the inner workings of the human body to life by personifying cells, quickly captured the hearts of readers and became a sensation. With over 10 million copies in circulation and multiple successful spin-offs and anime adaptations, its popularity knows no bounds. And now, this beloved story is making its grand debut as a live-action feature film! Cells At Work is set to […]
NATSUME ARATA’S MARRIAGE Pops The Question In The First Killer Teaser
Taro Nogizawa’s 2019 manga is now the subject of a new psychological crime thriller adaptation from Warner Bros. Japan. That film, Natsume Arata’s Marriage, now has a teaser signaling the latest from director Yukihiko Tsutsumi (12 Suicidal Teens). Natsume Arata’s Marriage centers on Natsume, a child protection agent who, at the behest of a former client orphaned by the deaths of his parents and in search of answers, decides to moonlight as the letter-writing correspondent to a suspected serial killer on death row. In an effort to be as convincing as possible and keep the act going, Natsume takes the leap and decides to pop the question, unraveling a series of chilling and explosive events that could fall short of his own “happily ever after”. Natsume Arata’s Marriage stars actor and last year’s Japan Cuts CUT ABOVE award-winning actor Yuya Yagira (Under The Turquoise Sky), and actress Yuina Kuroshima (Fullmetal […]
ONMYOJI ZERO: Witness The Beginnings Of A Legendary Yin Yang Master In The Official Trailer!
The massive undertaking that is K20: Legend Of The Mask helmer Shimako Sato’s latest work now comes with a full on official trailer for the April 19 Japan release Onmyoji Zero from Warner Bros. Japan. Top to bottom with its own title track by Japanese alt rock quartet Bump Of Chicken, even. We also have a new poster brimming with a cast led by Kingdom franchise and “Alice In Borderland” series star Kento Yamazaki. Also starring are 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). In Heian times, almost a thousand years ago, most believed in the existences they could not see. People, demons, and […]
MY HOME HERO: THE MOVIE Teaser Sees A Father On The Run From Both Sides Of The Law
Warner Bros. Japan is setting sail this Spring with My Home Hero: The Movie, the new feature film successor following up on the hit TV drama that aired last Fall. That show’s director, Takahiro Aoyama, makes his feature debut on the film based on the 2017 manga, from a script by Susumu Funabashi who also penned the show. Starring Kuranosuke Sasaki (Godzilla Minus One) in the lead role once more, the film takes its cues from the events of the series chronicling the aftermath of what happens when a mystery novelist discovers his daughter’s abuse at the hands of her boyfriend. He takes matters into his own hands having never committed a crime until now, and it’s not long before he finds himself on the run from the law, as well as the lawless. Tae Kimura and Asuka Saito also star along with Shuichiro Naito, Kyohei Takahashi, Takuma Otoo and […]
ONMYOJI-0 Official Trailer, Posters Reveal Cast Led By Kento Yamazaki For Shimako Sato’s New 2024 Fantasy Epic!
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 […]
ONMYOJI-0: Warner Bros. Japan Swoops In With A Teaser For Shimako Sato’s Fantasy Origin Tale
Warner Bros. Japan took to the interwebs in its Tuesday timezone premiering the first official teaser for Onmyoji-0. Based on Baku Yumemakura’s longstanding novels, the film was directed by Shimako 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. According to notes made public via the studio, Sato’s new fantasy epic, penned under Yumemakura’s stewardship with Jujutsu consultation by essayist and author Nanami Kamon, is aiming for 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. Cast and crew info apart from what’s been made available thusfar remain a mystery until the studio deems it so. In the meantime, check out the sweeping and majestic teaser below ahead of its Golden Week release […]
LUMBERJACK THE MONSTER: Kazuya Kamenashi Has An Axe To Grind With An Axe Murderer In The First Teaser For Takashi Miike’s Latest!
Japan auteur Takashi Miike has already taken a hold on a few headlines this week re: The Great Yokai War: Guardians. Don’t count him out just yet however as it’s only the middle of the week, because Miike is on track to get some extra attention with the teaser now running for Lumberjack The Monster, opening locally in theaters on December 1 from Warner Bros. Japan. Lumberjack The Monster is based on Mayusuke Kurai’s Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! Award-winning novel published by Takarajimasha. The film features Kazuya Kamenashi who plays a psychopathic hotshot lawyer who also happens to be a cold-blooded murderer. Everything changes when he crosses paths with an axe-wielding serial killer donning a monstrous mask with a penchant for severing heads open and scooping out the brains of his victims. In short, there’s gonna be some killer-versus-killer type shit in Miike’s latest work, and I reckon anyone who […]
WB Japan Reveals TOKYO REVENGERS: BLOODY HALLOWEEN ARC Trailer For Back-To-Back Action Sequels
I’ll wait as long as it takes for Tsutomu Hanabusa’s inaugural Tokyo Revengers flick to get a Western distributor. It was a favorite among faves back in 2019 and I would love to help share it with audiences in my neck of the globe if possible, especially with Warner Bros. Japan now shepherding a back-to-back sequel this Spring and Summer based on Ken Wakui’s hit manga. Making his return to the fray from returning scribe Izumi Takahashi is none other than Takumi Kitamura in the lead role of Takemichi Hanagaki once more, following the events of the first film. Alas, as if stumbling back in time to redo his yesteryear teenage hard knocks to save his beloved, Hinata, in the future from certain death wasn’t enough, our would-be hero must now endure his trials yet again to settle old scores with former friends and possibly save her once and for […]
TOKYO REVENGERS 2: BLOODY HALLOWEEN ARC: Tsutomu Hanabusa’s Live-Action Manga Sequel Teases Two-Part 2023 Blitz!
It was back in July when Warner Bros. Japan teased a sequel to Tsutomu Hanabusa’s hit adaptation of Ken Wakui’s gangbuster manga, Tokyo Revengers. As of Tuesday, the studio is staying steady with a brief, brand-new teaser signaling the sequel’s two-part 2023 rollout titled Tokyo Revengers 2: Bloody Halloween Arc, with the first part set to arrive in Spring titled “Fate” and the second being “Decisive Battle” by the Summer. Izumi Takahashi sat in once more to pen the screenplay for the sequel which sees actor Takumi Kitamura reprising his role as 26-year old Takemichi Hanagaki, who discovers a time portal and uses it to travel back to high school to save Hinata Tachibana (Mio Imada) the only woman he’s ever loved from being murdered in the present day. That task ultimately found him retracing old steps and undoing past mistakes to climb the ranks of teen gangster hierarchy, a […]
KARADA SAGASHI Takes You Into The Halls Of Hell In The Official Trailer
The newest official trailer is now online for Karada Sagashi, the latest horror thriller from director Eiichiro Hasumi. The trailer comes following an early first look teaser released back in June. The film is based on author Welzard’s 2011 novel and stars Kanna Hashimoto as a student named Asuka who, on the morning of July 5, soon finds herself caught in a cyclic and gruesome death loop. Trapped on school grounds with her childhood friend and four other classmates with no way out, they are all tasked with finding eight missing body parts belonging to a young girl named Haruka, which are scattered throughout the building. Either they succeed or risk being hunted by a deadly and vicious entity and forced to repeat the day until they win. Karada Sagashi opens in Japan theaters on October 14 from Warner Bros. Japan.
TOKYO REVENGERS Live-Action Sequel Announced At WB Japan
Director Tsutomu Hanabusa is coming back for another round of explosive teenage time travel beatdowns with a sequel to last year’s hit manga adaptation, Tokyo Revengers. The news was announced on Saturday in a teaser announcement from the studio which you can view in the player above, featuring snippets of the first film including lead actor Takumi Kitamura who will reprise his role once more. The inaugural film and its upcoming 2023 sequel are based on Ken Wakui’s 2017 manga and centers on Takemichi Hanagaki, a loser living in a crappy apartment who learns that Hinata, the only girlfriend he ever had was killed by the villainous Tokyo Manji Gang. Upon getting shoved into a time portal and sent back ten years, the accident sets off a series of opportune events for Hanagaki to undo his past, climb the ranks of the gangs, and save Hinata’s life. The first film […]