‘Orochi’ gets a non-boring trailer

The first teaser for Orochi was so incredibly lame and pointless that it makes the new full trailer that came out yesterday (see below) all the more noteworthy, simply for having actual footage. Based on a 1969 Kazuo Umezu manga, “Orochi” tells the story of two sisters, Kazusa (Yoshino Kimura) and her younger sister Lisa (Noriko Nakagoshi). Lisa can never seem to do anything as well as Kazusa—a fact that her cruel parents will never stop reminding her of. In fact, the only person in her family that’s nice to her at all is the sister she’s slowly growing to despise. A third girl named Orochi (Mitsuki Tanimura) observes the situation and acts as a narrator for the story. Orochi is an ageless being who must sleep every 100 years. However, when she saves Lisa from an accident her sleep is trigger prematurely. When she awakens decades later she discovers Kazusa is now ill and being taken care of by Lisa, but things don’t seem quite right between them.

“Orochi” opens on September 20, 2008.

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Tags: hiroshi takahashi, kazuo umezu, kyusaku shimada, mitsuki tanimura, noriko nakagoshi, norio tsuruta, orochi, taro yamamoto, yoshino kimura