First teaser for Tomoyuki Takimoto’s ‘Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit’

Posted by Kevin Ouellette at 6:18am on Monday, May 12, 2008 EDT

Filed under: Drama, Future releases, Trailer Updates

The official website for the upcoming live-action movie adaptation of Motoro Mase’s manga serial Ikigami is now up, and with it comes a new teaser. Like most teasers actual movie footage is pretty sparse, but at least we get a peek at Shota Matsuda in the traditional Fujimoto “sorry dude, you’re dead” pose.

For those not familiar with the manga, the story basically involves a national death lottery in Japan meant to force citizens into becoming more productive members of society and reduce the suicide rate. Children are injected with a lethal nanocapsule along with a nationally-administered vaccine at a very young age. The capsule eventually makes its way to their pulmonary artery where it waits to be activated. Between the ages of 18 and 24 people become eligible for ikigami. 1 out of every 1000 people are chosen to die, being informed of their fate only 24 hours before it happens.

Having passed the age of 24 a man named Kengo Fujimoto (Matsuda) has the unenviable job of delivering these ikigami. Although he opposes the law, he would never dare admit it publicly. The film will follow Kengo as he delivers ikigami and tries to accept his role as a messenger of death, slowly maturing with each case. It will also follow a few of his victims as they deal with their fate in different ways.

Here’s the teaser:

Ikigami opens in September.

Links:
Official website
TokyoGraph

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Tags: akira emoto dystopia haruka igawa hitori gekidan ikigami the ultimate limit jun fubuki kazuma sano koji tsukamoto riko narumi sansei shiomi shota matsuda takashi sasano takayuki yamada tomoyuki takimoto yuta kanai

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Hello mr Tatsuhiko Takimoto (滝本竜彦)

First of all I admire your work as a manga author

              My name is Cyril Demoulin I fifteen years and I live in Belgium and I speak French but you can answer me in English or Japanese

              I love your manga nhk ni Youkoso (Welcome to the NHK) is my favorite among many others I find that character on the expression appropriate to the scenario and set video

I love your manga but I was only one question why there are only 20 episode I am disappointed tors

  Can you happy if you answer me this address cy-de@hotmail.com

Posted by cyril demoulin at 11:39am EDT on Monday, June 29, 2009

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