Asmik Ace uploaded a new 30 second teaser trailer of their live-action Rohan au Louvre film, set to release on May 26, 2023.
The film stars Issey TakahashiIssey Takahashi
Issey Takahashi is a Japanese actor and singer credited for his role in the Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan TV drama and two films, Rohan au Louvre and At a Confessional, as the lead character, Rohan Kishibe. He also plays Nizaemon Yamamura in the former film. Takahashi is also known for...
as Rohan KishibeRohan Kishibe
Rohan Kishibe is a primary ally featured in the fourth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Diamond is Unbreakable. He is introduced as an antagonist in the "Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House" story arc, but later becomes an ally and cooperates in the search for Yoshikage Kira...., Marie IitoyoMarie Iitoyo
Marie Iitoyo is a Japanese actress, fashion model, and gravure model credited for playing Kyoka Izumi, the reoccurring editor of Rohan Kishibe, in the live-action Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan TV drama. She is also married to Rohan's actor, Issey Takahashi. Her former stage name and real name is spelled in... as Kyoka IzumiKyoka Izumi
Kyoka Izumi is a recurring primary ally featured in Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan. Kyoka is an editor working at Shueisha, who is assigned to Rohan Kishibe to assist him in publishing his manga in Weekly Shonen Jump, most notably his series, Pink Dark Boy. In Millionaire Village, when she hears..., Kento Nagao as Young Rohan, Fumino Kimura as NanaseNanase Fujikura
Nanase Fujikura is a primary ally featured in Rohan au Louvre. One day, she appears at the inn belonging to Rohan Kishibe's grandmother and takes an interest to Rohan's drawings. She has a mysterious link to the cursed painting. Nanase is a young Japanese woman of average height and a..., Masanobu Ando as Ryunosuke Tatsumi, and Minami as Emma NoguchiEmma Noguchi
Emma Noguchi is a secondary ally featured in the one-shot Rohan au Louvre. She is a Japanese interpreter who works at the publishing department of the Louvre, who welcomes Rohan Kishibe to the museum. After receiving Rohan's request to see the Under the Moon painting, she accompanies him along with....
The movie was filmed in both Japan and France, being only the second Japanese film to be shot at the Louvre museum.
Trailer
Like the first trailer, Koki Uchiyama is the narrator, who voiced Yoma HashimotoYoma Hashimoto
Yoma Hashimoto is the main antagonist of The Run, the ninth episode of the Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan series. He is the boyfriend of Mika Hayamura and an up-and-coming model who develops an obsession for working out in order to further his career. Yoma begins working out at Morioh Grand... in the Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan OVAs.
Summary
Rohan Kishibe, a manga artist with a special ability, once heard a rumor in his youth about a Black Painting from a woman he had a crush on. It was not only the blackest, but the most evil painting in the world.
Time passes, and in the process of writing a new work, Rohan learns that the painting is held at the Louvre Museum. He thus visits France for a viewing, and for a faint yearning he once had. However, strangely enough, even the museum staff was unaware of the existence of the Black Painting, and its storage location in the database was Warehouse Z-13, an underground warehouse that should have been empty.
There, Rohan comes face-to-face with the horrifying events caused by the Black Painting…
About Rohan au Louvre
Before Ultra Jump published the manga on March 19, 2010, The Louvre Invites The Comics exhibit displayed Hirohiko Araki’s Rohan au Lovure at the Louvre Museum from January 22 to April 13, 2009.
The Louvre offered Araki to draw a manga to feature in their “bande dessinée” collection, making it the first manga published by Musée du Louvre Editions. Moreover, the manga is Araki’s first full-color work.
Bande dessinée refers to Franco-Belgian comics and the term is also called the “ninth art” (the other arts include architecture, sculpture, painting, etc.). Incidentally, this film is considered the ninth episode of the TV drama.
About Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan
Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan, also called the Rohan Kishibe Series, is an ongoing series of one-shot manga featuring the titular character, Rohan Kishibe, as the narrator and/or protagonist. These one-shots are intermittently published in various magazines, including Weekly Shonen Jump, Ultra Jump, and Jump Square. A paperback volume compiling the... is a manga spin-off series of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. It features the part 4 character Rohan Kishibe as the protagonist, who experiences several paranormal encounters.
The series started publication in 1997 and continues to this day. As of 2022, it consists of a dozen independent short stories involving Rohan. The chapters have been published in several different magazines over the years.
In 2020, NHK began adapting the series in TV drama format. The series has three seasons with 8 episodes in total, broadcasted from 2020 to 2022. It received good reception and won a Galaxy Award in 2020.
