First trailer for the live-action adaption of Hikaru Nakamura’s Arakawa Under the Bridge manga.

Synopsis (Anime):

Kou Ichinomiya has always lived according to the creed of his wealthy, successful family: never be in debt to anyone. But one day, under the Arakawa Bridge, his life is saved by a homeless girl named Nino. In order to pay her back, Kou promises to be her boyfriend; and thus begins his new life under the bridge.

[via ANN]

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Full trailer for the live-action adaptation of Shohei Manabe’s Smuggler manga by The Taste of Tea and Funky Forest director Katsuhito Ishii.

Synopsis:

A failed actor named Ryosuke (Satoshi Tsumabuki) takes a part-time job at a pachinko parlor. After racking up a huge debt, he’s forced to take a smuggling job from a yakuza company chief (Yasuko Matsuyuki) who offers him 50,000 yen per successful delivery.
Unfortunately for Ryosuke, the reason for this big payout is that his new job actually entails disposing of corpses in the middle an escalating gang war, and making even the slightest mistake could prove deadly.

[via ANN & Official Website]

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Rumors about a Hollywood remake of Chan-wook Park’s OldBoy or rather the original manga by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi have been around the net for several years now. After Stephen Spielberg and Will Smith left the project about two years ago and other candidates like Danny Boyle and Matthew Vaughn didn’t get their chance, Mandate Pictures (finally?) got some confirmed news for us. Rope of Silicone reports that the studio announced that Spike Lee will helm the remake/reinterpretation after a screenplay by Mark Protosevich (The Cell, I am Legend, Thor) with yet unnamed actors.
[via Rope of Silicone]

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The Taste of Tea und Funky Forest director Katsuhito Ishii takes on Shohei Manabe’s 2000 manga SMUGGLER:

Synopsis:

A failed actor named Ryosuke (Satoshi Tsumabuki) takes a part-time job at a pachinko parlor. After racking up a huge debt, he’s forced to take a smuggling job from a yakuza company chief (Yasuko Matsuyuki) who offers him 50,000 yen per successful delivery.
Unfortunately for Ryosuke, the reason for this big payout is that his new job actually entails disposing of corpses in the middle an escalating gang war, and making even the slightest mistake could prove deadly.

[via Nippon Cinema & Twitch]

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DO WANT!

[via First Showing]

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The official website for Shinsuke Sato’s live-action adaptation of GANTZ has been updated with a first teaser and trailer for the second part GANTZ: Perfect Answer which will open in Japanese theaters in April.
Teaser:

Trailer:

[via Nippon Cinema]

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First poster for the second part of Shinsuke Sato’s live-action adaptation of GANTZ called Perfect Answer which will open in Japanese (and probably selected US) theaters in April.

[via Filmsmash]

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Fifth and (for now) last CM for the upcoming new BERSERK anime project. I’ve skipped spot #4 which was released yesterday because it didn’t show anything new.

[via Official Website]

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The second teaser for Shinsuke Sato’s two-part live-action adaptation of the GANTZ manga promised in the headline is available at the official website. I didn’t embed it here because it doesn’t show anything more than the firrst official trailer above.
[via Nippon Cinema]

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Two more teasing CM spots to promote the new BESERK anime and/or the 35th volume of the original manga by Kentarou Miura.
CM #2

CM #3

[via ANN]

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