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The live-action movie for Ya Boy Kongming! (Paripi Kōmei) just dropped a brand-new trailer and poster, revealing more of the cast and teasing an exciting lineup of songs. The film is set to hit theaters on April 25, 2025 and takes place at the ‘Music Battle Awards 2025,’ where Japan’s biggest music labels go head-to-head.

A key highlight is the song lineup. The main character Eiko, played by Moka Kamishiraishi, performs the insert song ‘Count on me,’ written by Shinya Ishihara from the band SaucyDog. Utaha from Wednesday’s Campanella plays Shin and sings ‘again and again,’ a song composed by Sōshi Sakiyama.

Mia Iriomote, played by Koharu Sugawara, will perform ‘New Zone,’ a track composed by Zo Zhit of Dos Monos. The ending theme, ‘Sing along!!!,’ is composed by Lilas Ikuta, known as ikura from Yoasobi. She previously wrote the song ‘Dreamer’ for the live-action series.

Several actors return from the drama,...

The official website for the upcoming live-action film adaptation of Yuto Yotsuba (story) and Ryo Ogawa's (art) comedy manga Ya Boy Kongming! (known as Paripi Koumei in Japan) released a second teaser trailer today. The clip reveals that &Team , a nine-member global boy group, will appear in the film. The film's story centers on Music Battle Awards 2025, a music festival where Japan's three major music labels compete for the top spot, and &Team perform at the festival as themselves. Additionally, three members of the unit — Ej , Nicholas , and Harua — also try their hand at acting. Ya Boy Kongming! The Movie 2nd Teaser Trailer &Team has posted a following message on the film's official website: It is a great honor for us to be cast in the movie "Ya Boy Kongming!," which has been loved by many people for both the original manga and the drama. We were nervous to...

Following the TV drama series in 2023, a live-action feature film adaptation of Yuto Yotsuba (story) and Ryo Ogawa's (art) comedy manga Ya Boy Kongming! (known as Paripi Koumei in Japan) is set to release in Japan on April 25, 2025 . The movie's official website and X (formerly Twitter) have opened, releasing a teaser trailer and visual. Ya Boy Kongming! The Movie Teaser Trailer Teaser visual Related: Ya Boy Kongming! Manga Gets Live-Action Drama Adaptation This Fall The manga was first serialized in Kodansha's Comic Days website from December 2019 to November 2021, then transfering to Weekly Young Magazine, with 19 tankobon volumes released in Japan to date. The story centers on Zhuge Kongming, the legendary Chinese strategist who is reincarnated in a young body in modern Shibuya. He brings ingenious innovation to the Japanese music scene to fulfill the dream of Eiko Tsukimi, a fledgling singer he met there. The manga's live-action TV...

Over the course of his career, Eichiro Hasumi has been making quite a name for himself directing entertaining genre features, even though the majority of them is somewhat forgettable. Apart from “Assassination Classroom: Graduation” he is perhaps best known for this entries into the “Resident Evil”-franchise, “Infinite Darkness” and the upcoming “Death Island”, which cemented the reputation of the animated entries of the franchise being in many ways superior to the lukewarm features by the likes of Paul W.S. Anderson. In between these last two projects, he directed “re:member” (also known as “Re/Member”), which was released on Netflix, and which is his take on the horror genre, blending ideas from J-horror, the slasher genre and time travel movies.

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The story centres around six high-school students, with Asuka (Kanna Hashimoto) essentially being the main protagonist. One day, which begins seemingly normal,...

The world of Asian cinema has seen a vast share of their most recent fare emanating from manga adaptations, with titles ranging from Rurouni Kenshin, “Death Note,” Blade of the Immortal, and Gantz finding their inspiration coming from its pages. Such is the origins of the latest Netflix release in Eiichiro Hasumi's adaptation of “Re/Member,” which started out as a multi-year run in the early 2010s and was followed by an anime adaptation several years later before this current live-action feature.

After what seems to be a normal day, high-school student Asuka (Kanna Hashimoto) sees the ghost of the dead student Haruka at school, asking her to find the girl's dead body. When she and Takahiro (Gordon Maeda), Atsushi, (Fuju Kamio), Rumiko (Maika Yamamoto), Rie (Mayu Yokota), and Shota (Kotaro Daigo), a group of students, set out to find the various scattered pieces of Haruka's corpse buried in the school,...

Re/Member (Karada Sagashi) is a horror movie directed by Eiichirô Hasumi starring Kanna Hashimoto, Gordon Maeda and Maika Yamamoto among. It is based on the manga by Katsutoshi Murase and Welzard.

Re/Member is a Japanese scary movie… Japanese fashion with all the elements of recent “scary” movie successes and some extra ones extracted from the most classic Hollywood ones.

Ringu was a success because it was a novelty, Re/Member does not have much chances in standing out, precisely because of its “originality” or lack of it.

It does offer horror movie fans a little more of what they expect in this guilty sin.

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In order to break a curse, six students in a strange space/time will need to restore the balance in Sofia, a child that was murdered years ago and whom they wish to avenge.

Movie Review

A movie about ghosts and apparitions that is well made...

Mayu Nakamura directed 2021 Tokyo International Film Festival’s Nippon Cinema Now selection.

LA-based Est Studios has boarded worldwide sales rights excluding Japan to the Tokyo-set psychological thriller Intimate Stranger and is in talks with buyers at AFM.

Mayu Nakamura directed the 2021 Tokyo International Film Festival’s Nippon Cinema Now selection starring Asuka Kurosawa and rising talent Fuju Kamio.

Intimate Stranger takes place in a post-Covid Tokyo and follows a woman searching for her missing teenage son who is approached by a shady young man claiming to know his whereabouts. Over time the strangers entrap each other with deception. Tetsujiro Yamagami served as producer.