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HiGH&LOW: THE WORST Is Yet To Come In The Official Teaser For The Newest Entry Of The HIGH&LOW Franchise

For anyone who thought the HiGH&LOW franchise was done and finished, you couldn’t be more wrong with the first official teaser for imageField’s HiGH&LOW: The Worst, here to make its case. A crossover with Hiroshi Takahashi’s Crows and Worst high school delinquent manga franchises, Shigeaki Kubo, who served among a cadre of filmmakers for the franchise spanning a two-season drama and five feature films created and launched by Japanese supergroup, Exile Tribe at LDH, Inc., is at the helm once more. This also marks the latest mention of anything Crows-related following the 2007 and 2009 films from Takashi Miike, and Toshiyaki Toyoda’s 2014 threequel. This movie presents a world where Toaru city and the SWORD area, which are the main stages of “CROWS” & “WORST” and “HiGH & LOW”, intersect. Two high schools, “the dark and brutal senior high school” Oya Koukou from the “HiGH & LOW” series and the […]

POPEYED GOLDFISH: Yamaguchi Yoshitaka’s Teen Gangster Romp Sees Red In The First Official Teaser

Lee B. Golden III

Samurai Cat helmer Yamaguchi Yoshitaka is poised to bring his latest coming-of-age drama, Popeyed Goldfish, to cinemas this winter in Japan and a teaser is now available to show for his efforts. Adachi Shin adapted the screenplay which sees to our tale of our trademark red-haired protaginist, Masaki, whose hardship from childhood transforms him into an unbeatable, thick-skinned thug with aspirations of leading his own motorcycle gang. You get to see some of that craziness in the teaser below which also has upcoming Ajin: Demi Human co-star, actor Yamada Yuki who plays Masaki’s longtime friend, Atsunari. I’m not too knowledgeable of the film’s literary roots but that this film’s manga base has autobiographical roots (as hinted over at AsianWiki) is certainly interesting, which makes the plot here seem all the more folkloric in a sense. I could be wrong though… At any rate, those familiar with Sata Masaki’s tale are […]