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An official website for Yasuhiro Kawamura’s Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Koen-mae Hashutsujo The Movie: Kachidokibashi o Fusaseyo! has been launched with a teaser trailer.

The film is a continuation of the 2009 TBS drama which was based on Osamu Akimoto’s “Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Koen-mae Hashutsujo” (1996-2009) manga series, also known as “Kochikame” for short.

As previously reported by Tokyograph, the live-action version stars Shingo Katori of Smap as a police officer named Kankichi Ryotsu who gets involved in various misadventures adventures involving the people around his police box in front of Kameari Park in Katsushika Ward.

In the new film, Ryo-san has a chance encounter with a former grade school classmate and crush named Momoko (Kyoko Fukada), causing his heart to flutter. Soon after, the National Police Agency chief’s granddaughter is kidnapped. When Ryo-san discovers Momoko may be involved in some way, he sets out to discover the truth.

The more I see of this upcoming movie addition to the Gokusen canon the more I can see that the production team behind it is really, really catering to only fans of the show. Thus dictates how successful they will be at the box office but with the new trailer and announcement of a lot of the returning cast from the first two seasons making appearances in the film it should boost their success at home in Japan. And then there are the gaijin like me who like the show as well who will want to see this as well but will have to resort to getting it on DVD cause I don’t imagine this could travel outside of Japan as a stand alone film.

With “Gokusen: The Movie” less than a couple months away, a new announcement has revealed that six more actors from the drama’s earlier seasons will be returning,...