Category: Mystery

The official website for Takeshi Furusawa’s upcoming live-action adaptation of Yukito Ayatsuji’s horror novel Another has been updated with a new full trailer.

Kento Yamazaki plays a 15-year-old boy named Koichi Sakakibara who moves to the suburban mountain town of Yomiyama to live with his grandparents in the spring of 1998. One day, he suffers a seizure caused by a chronic lung condition and collapses. While in the hospital recovering, he sees a beautiful girl wearing an eye patch (Ai Hashimoto) who makes a strange comment about about the morgue on the second floor and suddenly vanishes.

He meets up with her again when he attends middle school. Her name is Mei Misaki and Koichi can’t help but notice how oddly the other students and teachers seem to act around her. He makes several attempts to get to know her better, but fails repeatedly. However, when their classmates start dying one by one in bizarre accidents, she’s the only person who can help him unravel the mysterious cause.

“Another” is co-distributed by Toho and Kadokawa Pictures and will be released in Japan on August 4, 2012.

A teaser site has been launched for Takeshi Furusawa’s upcoming live-action adaptation of Yukito Ayatsuji’s horror novel Another. With the site comes a cryptic teaser trailer and a cast list which adds Ai Kato and Yoshihiko Hakamada to the previously announced leads, Ai Hashimoto and Kento Yamazaki.

Yamazaki plays a 15-year-old boy named Koichi Sakakibara who’s forced to move to a suburban town in the mountains called Yomiyama to live with his grandparents in the spring of 1998. One day he suffers a seizure brought on by a chronic lung condition and collapses, but luckily he’s taken to the hospital in time to save his life. While in recovery at the hospital, he sees a beautiful girl wearing an eye patch (Hashimoto) and becomes fixated on her before she makes an odd remark about the morgue on the second floor and leaves suddenly.

He meets up with her again when he attends middle school. Her name is Mei Misaki and Koichi can’t help but notice how the other students and teachers at the school seem to treat her as if she doesn’t exist. He makes several attempts to get to know her better, but fails repeatedly. However, when tragedy strikes several of their classmates, she’s the only person who can help him unravel the mystery behind a string of accidental deaths.

Another is being co-distributed by Toho and Kadokawa Pictures and will be released in Japan on August 4, 2012.

Source: Kadokawa Pictures

Here’s the first teaser for Hajime Hashimoto’s Phone Call to the Bar, which recently surfaced on YouTube.

Based on Naomi Azuma’s novel “Bar ni Kakatte Kita Denwa”, the second installment of the author’s “Susukino Tantei” detective series, the film stars Yo Oizumi as a private detective who bases his business out of a bar in Susukino, a red-light district in Sapporo, Hokkaido. In keeping with that premise, Oizumi’s character turns to the audience in the teaser and says “If something comes up, call me here.”

One day, he receives a call from a mystery woman (revealed in the teaser as being played by Koyuki) who gets both he and his combative-yet-reliable partner Takada (Ryuhei Matsuda) involved in a dangerous new case. Toshiyuki Nishida also stars as a wealthy industrialist.

Toei will be releasing “Phone Call to the Bar” in Japan on September 10, 2011

Source: Cinema Today

The Japanese film site Cinema Today has uploaded a trailer for Masatoshi Akihara’s Lupin no Kiganjo to their channel on YouTube.

The film is based Maurice Leblanc’s “L’aiguille Creuse”, known as “The Hollow Needle: The Further Adventures of Arsène Lupin” in English, but the characters and locations have been changed to fit a Japanese setting.

Arsène Lupin is a “gentleman thief” character which attained a level of popularity and longevity in French-speaking countries comparable to Sherlock Holmes in English-speaking countries. He’s also mentioned as the grandfather of the main character of the Lupin III manga and anime series.

In the film, a celebrity’s secretary is murdered, and a discrepancy in the testimonies of the people involved leads to utter confusion about what actually occurred. Meanwhile a female college student and amateur sleuth (Sayuri Iwata) discovers a mysterious cypher written on a piece of paper. She attempts to track down Lupin (Koichi Yamadera) for guidance on the cypher, but continues to be baffled.

“Lupin no Kiganjo” will be released by Kaerucafe in Japan on May 7, 2011.