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The official website for Toya Sato's "ST MPD Scientific Investigation Squad" movie has been updated with a new 90-second trailer.
The film picks up after the events of the popular 2014 NTV drama which followed the exploits of a group of quirky yet talented MPD crime lab researchers who were assigned to a special criminal investigation unit called ST (Scientific Task Force). In the movie, team analyst Samon Akagi (Tatsuya Fujiwara) is arrested for murder after a charred corpse is discovered and ST is subsequently disbanded.
Elite inspector Tomohisa Yurine doesn't believe Akagi is guilty, and when Akagi escapes from jail, they begin investigating a new computer virus used by a genius hacker named Kaburaki (Yusuke Santamaria). Eventually, they track down a mysterious woman named Naomi Doujima (Yumi Adachi) who has knowledge about Kaburaki and the virus.
Shunji Iwai is directing an animated prequel to his 2004 film Hana & Alice titled The Case of Hana & Alice (Hana to Alice Satsujin Jiken). The project marks Iwai's first work as an animation director. He also wrote the screenplay and provided the music.
The animated film reunites the original film's co-leads, Yu Aoi (Alice) and Anne Suzuki (Hana), as voice actors. The two already finished pre-recording their dialogue for the film,...
Actress Keiko Kitagawa will play the heroine of No Yona mono no Yona mono, a sequel to Yoshimitsu Morita's 1981 directorial debut Something Like it.
Morita died of acute liver failure on December 19, 2011. Kitagawa considers Morita to have been one of her mentors in the movie industry, having made her silver screen debut in his 2006 comedy The Mamiya Brothers and later appearing in his 2007 film Southbound.
Kitagawa began her career as a successful...
Actress Sara Takatsuki has joined the cast of Takahisa Zeze's Strayer's Chronicle, a movie adaptation of Takayoshi Honda's 3-act series of science fiction thriller novels.
Takatsuki has had supporting roles in several major live-action films in her career, but recently gained notoriety when she was handpicked to play the Japanese voice of Anna in Studio Ghibli's When Marnie Was There.
In contrast to her past work, her new role will involve...
Actor Toshiaki Karasawa (51) will play Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara in an upcoming biopic directed by Cellin Gluck.
Sugihara served as Vice-Consul for the Empire of Japan in Kaunas, Lithuania during World War II and issued transit visas to thousands of Jewish refugees from Germany and Poland which helped them escape to Japan during World War II. He did this in spite of not having the approval of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,...
Actress Aya Hirayama (30) will play physician Chikako Shida in Jiro Nagae's Isha Sensei.
Shida was born in 1910 in Ooisawa, Yamagata (now Nishikawa) as the eldest daughter of a prominent family. Her father Soujirou was the principal of a local elementary school and her mother died during a particularly difficult childbirth. At that time, Ooisawa had no doctors, and by the time they rushed her mother to a neighboring town it was too late to save her...
Actress Kasumi Arimura (21) is set to star in Nobuhiro Doi's Biri Gyaru, a movie adaptation of Nobutaka Tsubota's breakthough novel "Gakunen Biri no Gyaru ga Ichinen de Hensachi o Yonjuu Agete Keio Daigaku ni Gen'eki Goukaku Shita Hanashi" which went on to sell over 550,000 copies.
Tsubota is a teacher who based his novel on the experiences of one of his pupils, a 2nd-year high school student named Sayaka Kondo with blonde hair and an affinity...
Mayu Matsuoka (19) has joined the cast of Takahisa Zeze's Strayer's Chronicle, a 2015 movie based on Takayoshi Honda’s 3-act series of science fiction thriller novels.
The announcement marks the latest addition to the movie's primary cast of young actors, which already includes Masaki Okada, Shota Sometani, Riko Narumi, Shunya Shiraishi, Yuina Kuroshima, and Sara Takatsuki.
Strayer’s Chronicle revolves around a group of young people who were...
Back on July 30, the main cast members of Shinji Higuchi's 2-part live-action movie adaptation of Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan were announced, but their specific roles were kept under wraps. Today their roles were finally revealed along with a series of 13 new character images, ending months of fan speculation.
The new images were created for an Attack on Titan exhibition which will be held at the the Ueno Royal Museum from...