‘Onechanbara’ movie adaptation announced, plus pics and poster
Posted by kevin at 5:54am on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 EDT
Filed under: Future releases, Movie announcements
Well people, if there ever was a video game series begging to be adapted to mindless exploitive movie form it was Onechanbara, and now that seems to be reality. The movie will be directed by Yohei Fukuda (cinematographer for Chikan Otoko) and will star Eri Otoguro as the main protagonist/zombie slasher Aya, Chise Nakamura as her little sister Saki, and Manami Hashimoto as Reiko the mystery woman. I’m not sure about the plot yet but if it’s true to the video games it probably goes something like this: Sparsely-dressed girls kill waves and waves of zombies to protect their city.
Here’s a gameplay video from Onechanbara Vortex for the Xbox360:
And pics of the actresses in their outfits:
Eri Otoguro as Aya
Chise Nakamura as Saki
Manami Hashimoto as Reiko
Release is scheduled for late April 2008.
Source: famitsu.com - even more pics + production stills
Links:
Official website
Eigapedia
Tags: video game, zombies
Comments
that’s a really good question.. i know the US branch of D3 Publisher had plans to put vortex out in the US as of early 07 but they never followed through with it.. maybe they were waiting for some movie buzz first
Posted by kevin at 7:12pm EDT on Friday, February 8, 2008
I played the PS2 game and it was OK, basically just a button masher. I’ll still see this movie though because Chise Nakamura = fiiiiiiiiine
Posted by rupan777 at 11:52pm EDT on Friday, February 8, 2008
LOL. Too cool. The game looks awesome, btw. How come they haven’t released it here? Here’s hoping the movie will be fun.
Posted by Chris at 6:05pm EDT on Friday, February 8, 2008