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    The female ninja Kisaragi (Rina Takeda) battles slavers in THE KUNOICHI: NINJA GIRL. Photo courtesy of The Associates. © 2011 The Kunoichi Partners

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    From the Director of OF ALIEN VS. NINJA and the Star of KARATE GIRL Source: The Associates press release Official Movie Site: kunoichi-movie.com (Japan) From pioneering ninja movie writer-director Seiji Chiba (ALIEN VS. NINJA; ROGUE NINJA), 19-year-old karate sensation-turned-actress Rina Takeda (KARATE GIRL; HIGH-KICK GIRL) and stunt choreographer Kensuke Sonomura (THE WARRIOR`S WAY; ALIEN VS. NINJA; THE MACHINE GIRL) comes THE KUNOICHI: NINJA GIRL (??, Kunoichi, 2011), an ass-kicking blast of martial arts action. As the fierce rivalry between the Iga and Kouga ninja clans rages on, a pair of psychotic eunuch ninjas, Shimotsuki and Hyotsuki, are tasked with abducting young women from nearby Kouga villages and forcing them to serve as “tools of pleasure” to the lower-ranking members of their clan. While transporting their latest quartet of victims – including a feisty girl called Kisaragi (Rina Takeda) – through the woodlands back

    Iris and Gamera face off in a publicity shot for GAMERA 3: REVENGE OF IRIS. © 1999 Kadokawa Pictures, Inc.

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    Get the Blu-ray Box Set for Free, Courtesy of Mill Creek, Cheap DVD Packs, and SciFi Japan! Source: Mill Creek Entertainment, Cheap DVD Packs Special Thanks to Barrett Evans A SCIFI JAPAN EXCLUSIVE On September 27th, GAMERA 3: REVENGE OF IRIS and the GAMERA TRILOGY Collector`s Edition will be released on Blu-ray in North America by Mill Creek Entertainment. Now, Mill Creek and their friends over at Cheap DVD Packs are offering SciFi Japan readers an early chance to win the GAMERA TRILOGY Blu-ray set, free of charge! The GAMERA TRILOGY Collector`s Edition includes all three movies from the acclaimed 1990s Gamera series on two Blu-ray discs... GAMERA: GUARDIAN OF THE UNIVERSE (??? ???????, Gamera Daikaiju Kuchu Kessen, 1995) GAMERA 2: ATTACK OF THE LEGION (???2 ??????, Gamera 2: Region Shurai, 1996) GAMERA 3: REVENGE OF IRIS (???3 ?????????, Gamera 3: Jyashin

    Apes rule a futuristic Japan in TIME OF THE APES, one of four fun movies from the upcoming DVD collection MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: XXII. © 1974 Tsuburaya Productions Co., Ltd.

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    Featuring TIME OF THE APES, MIGHTY JACK, THE VIOLENT YEARS, and THE BRUTE MAN Source: Shout! Factory press release Special Thanks to Tom Chen Our long cultural nightmare is over. On December 6, Shout! Factory, in association with Best Brains, Inc., will release MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: XXII, a 4-DVD set that includes TIME OF THE APES, MIGHTY JACK, THE VIOLENT YEARS, THE BRUTE MAN and a cornucopia of extras worthy of the holiday season. All four episodes are previously unreleased on DVD, and TIME OF THE APES and MIGHTY JACK are two of the most beloved and most requested episodes of the comedy phenomenon! Disc 1 of MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: XXII features TIME OF THE APES, which enjoys a mythical cult status among MSTies. Adapted (i.e., shredded and stitched into incoherence) from the 1974 Japanese series ARMY OF THE APES (????,

    A colony of vampires causes havoc on an uncharted Japanese island in HIGANJIMA: ESCAPE FROM VAMPIRE ISLAND. Photo courtesy of FUNimation Entertainment. © 2010 Suzuki Koji/ Kodansha,

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    Japanese/Korean Horror Adventure Coming October 4th Source: FUNimation Entertainment Official Movie Site: Higanjima (Japan) Special Thanks to Jackie Smith and Michelle Lee FUNimation Entertainment will release the Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack of HIGANJIMA: ESCAPE FROM VAMPIRE ISLAND (???, Higanjima, 2010) on October 4th. Based on Koji Matsumoto`s manga, HIGANJIMA is a Japanese/Korean horror adventure from VOLCANO HIGH director Kim Tae-gyun and DEATH NOTE movie screenwriter Tetsuya Oishi. Akira Miyamoto (Hideo Ishiguro, GOKUSEN THE MOVIE) and his ragtag group of teenage friends enter a world of danger and action when they land on the shores of Higanjima, an uncharted island that`s overrun by vampires. After a beautiful young woman named Rei Aoyama (Asami Mizukawa, MONKEY MAGIC) tells him that his missing brother Atsushi (Dai Watanabe, PRIDE) is alive and might be somewhere on the island, Akira talks several of his friends into joining him on

    The anime feature TRIGUN: BADLANDS RUMBLE will be released on DVD and Blu-ray this September 27th. Photo courtesy of FUNimation Entertainment. © 2010 Yasuhiro Naito/ Trigun the Movie Production Committee

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    Source: FUNimation Entertainment Official Movie Site: funimation.com/trigun (US), trigun-movie.com (Japan) Special Thanks to Jackie Smith and Michelle Lee TRIGUN: BADLANDS RUMBLE (????? The Movie ?????, 2010), the first full length Trigun movie, will be released on both DVD and Blu-ray in North America by FUNimation Entertainment. The movie is the first new Trigun animation in over a decade, and features a new story by series creator Yasuhiro Naito. In town surrounded by quicksand, an outlaw from Vash the Stampede`s past has resurfaced after twenty years. His name is Gasback - and he`s looking to cause a little trouble. It seems Gasback has a serious beef with the town`s mayor, who`s paying dozens of bounty hunters to protect his turf. One of those hired guns is a beautiful woman with a vendetta against Gasback. Will she get a shot at revenge? Maybe, if she

    Cover art for the upcoming UK DVD and Blu-ray editions of the Japanese live action sci-fi adventure GANTZ. Photos courtesy of The Associates. © Hiroya Oku/Shueisha © 2011 Gantz Film Partners

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    Source: The Associates press release Official Movie Site: gantz-movie.com (Japan), gantzmovies.com (US) Already adapted as a hugely successful anime series, Hiroya Oku’s manga Gantz gets a stunning special effects-laden, live action makeover courtesy of director Shinsuke Sato (SAND CLOCK; ALL ABOUT MY DOG) and DEATH NOTE trilogy producer Takahiro Sato. A thrilling hybrid of horror, action and sci-fi that recalls the likes of MEN IN BLACK, GHOSTBUSTERS and BATTLE ROYALE, GANTZ (??, 2011) stars Kazunari Ninomiya (LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA), Kenichi Matsuyama (NORWEGIAN WOOD; KAMUI; the DEATH NOTE trilogy) and popular Japanese TV star Natsuna (DAIMAJIN KANON). Teenage high school student Kei Kurono (Ninomiya) is waiting for a subway train home when he recognizes an old childhood friend Masaru Kato (Matsuyama) on the same platform. Suddenly, a drunken commuter falls on the tracks just as the station’s speaker system announces the approach of

    Naomitsu Hatakeyama (Shun Oguri) is betrayed by his brother in TAJOMARU: AVENGING BLADE. Photo courtesy of FUNimation Entertainment. ©2009 Tajomaru Film Partners

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    Source: FUNimation Entertainment Official Movie Site: warnerbros.co.jp/tajomaru (Japan) Special Thanks to Jackie Smith and Michelle Lee Loosely based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short stories Rashomon and In A Grove (most famously adapted for the screen by Akira Kurosawa in his 1950 masterpiece RASHOMON), TAJOMARU: AVENGING BLADE (??????, Tajomaru, 2009) is directed by Hiroyuki Nakano (STEREO FUTURE) and stars Shun Oguri (SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO, CROWS ZERO), Kyosuke Yabe (SAMURAI ZOMBIE) and Hiroyuki Ikeuchi (IP MAN, SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO). On September 20th, the film comes to North America in a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack from distributor FUNimation Entertainment. In the days of feudal Japan bandits ruled the forests. Tajomaru was the king of criminals: his ruthless character terrorized villagers and royalty across the country. As the legend went, whoever killed the infamous thief inherited his name, his sword and his reputation... Naomitsu Hatakeyama (Shun Oguri) is a

    Packaging for THE SWORD WITH NO NAME DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack. Photos courtesy of FUNimation Entertainment. © 2009 Sidus FNH

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    Source: FUNimation Entertainment Special Thanks to Jackie Smith and Michelle Lee On September 20, 2011, the Korean martial arts romance THE SWORD WITH NO NAME (???? ????, Bulkkotcheoreom Nabicheoreom, 2009) will be released on home video in North America by distributor FUNimation Entertainment. The movie will be available both on DVD and in a 2 Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack. Directed by Kim Yong-gyoon (THE RED SHOES), THE SWORD WITH NO NAME tells the story of the Joseon Dynasty`s legendary Empress Myseongseong (Su-ae, SUNNY, MIDNIGHT FM, ATHENA), a cherished ruler who fought courageously to modernize Korea. Forced to marry a king she does not love and embroiled in a brutal struggle between rival world powers, the Empress draws her strength from a dashing rogue; a nameless headhunter (Cho Seung-woo, GO GO 70s) who would do anything to be near her. This dark and brooding

    Mankind struggles to build a future in the vacuum of space in the animated feature TO – 2001 NIGHTS, coming next month to DVD and Blu-ray in the UK. Photo courtesy of The Associates. © 2009 Yukinobu Hoshino, Futabosha/ TO Committee

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    Source: The Associates press release Official Site: mv.avex.jp/to (Japan), funimation.com/tomovie (US) From Fumihiko Sori (ICHI; PING PONG), director of the groundbreaking CG animated feature VEXILLE, comes another breathtaking sci-fi spectacle, this time in the form of a two-episode OVA. Adapted from two unrelated stories from the 19 stories that make up the 2001 Nights manga written and illustrated by Yukinobu Hoshino, TO – 2001 NIGHTS (???, 2009) is a beautifully envisioned homage to the golden age of literary and cinematic science fiction. In the first of the two stories, ELLIPTICAL ORBIT, the crew aboard the earth-orbiting space station Midnight Bazooka are busy propelling containers of essential supplies toward a moon-base when they are visited by the starship, the Flying Dutchman. Returning from a 15-year mission in deep space, the Dutchman is carrying a cargo of liquid protons bound for earth. Thanks to extended

    Photo courtesy of Section23 Films.

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    MARDOCK SCRAMBLE: THE FIRST COMPRESSION Available on September 27th Source: Section23 Films press release Special Thanks to Mike Bailiff Home video distributor Section23 Films has provided details on its September slate of releases; including the spectacular new trilogy MARDOCK SCRAMBLE. The first movie will be released on DVD & Blu-Ray by Section23 client Sentai Filmworks. Product details follow, in order of release... TO LOVE RU COMPLETE COLLECTION Published by: Sentai Filmworks Distributed by: Section23 Films Run Time: 650 min. Street Date: 9/6/2011 Format: DVD Language: Japanese with English Subtitles SRP: $69.98 They say that the bathroom is the most dangerous room in the house, but when a beautiful, naked alien princess teleports into Rito Yuki’s bathtub, it’s a definite case of rub-a-dub-DOOM! Having no idea that the planet Develuke even exists, Rito is completely unaware that touching a girl’s breasts there is how they propose marriage.

    Win a GANTZ Prize Pack containing the poster and DVD. Photo courtesy of NEW PEOPLE Entertainment. © Hiroya Oku/Shueisha © 2011 Gantz Film Partners

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    Source: NEW PEOPLE Entertainment, MediaLab Official Movie Site: gantz-movie.com (Japan), gantzmovies.com (US) Special Thanks to Shio Toyoda and Erik Jansen A SCIFI JAPAN EXCLUSIVE On August 30th, NEW PEOPLE Entertainment is bringing the Japanese live action science fiction adventure GANTZ (??, 2011) to DVD and Blu-ray in North America. The film is based on the hit manga series created by Hiroya Oku, which has sold over 15 million copies worldwide and was previously adapted in a 26 episode anime series. Directed by Shinsuke Sato (THE PRINCESS BLADE) and starring Kazunari Ninomiya (LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA) and Kenichi Matsuyama (DEATH NOTE, DETROIT METAL CITY), GANTZ made its world premiere in the U.S. with screenings held at over 330 theaters nationwide. The movie went on to top the Japanese box office for four consecutive weeks, grossing over $40 million. To celebrate the upcoming release, NEW PEOPLE Entertainment

    The female ninja Ukagami (Mika Hijii) is sentenced to death in ROGUE NINJA. Photo courtesy of The Associates. © 2009 The Klockworx Co., Ltd

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    From the Director of OF ALIEN VS. NINJA Source: The Associates press release Official Movie Site: nukenin.net (Japan) Directed by Seiji Chiba (ALIEN VS. NINJA; EVIL NINJA) and starring up-and-coming Japanese action heroine Mika Hijii (ALIEN VS. NINJA), the action-packed, period-set martial arts adventure ROGUE NINJA (???, Nukenin, 2009) delivers bone crunching thrills aplenty with a classic tale of comradeship, loyalty and betrayal. The time is the 16th Century and the whole of Japan is wracked by civil war. The Iga ninja, fated to be demolished by Nobunaga Oda, the greatest warlord of the time, have put their people under severe and harsh restrictions, with the upper echelons of the ninja brotherhood ruling their charges with an iron fist. Even the slightest and most minor of infractions can result in a death sentence for members of the lesser ninja, even those few women

    DVD and Blu-ray cover art for TROLLHUNTER. Photo courtesy of Magnet Releasing. © 2010 Filmkameratene AS

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    Witness The Government Conspiracy First-Hand from Magnolia Home Entertainment Source: Magnolia Home Entertainment, Bender Helper Impact press release Official Site: trollhunterfilm.com Special Thanks to Lauren Alexander “An enjoyably off-kilter hybrid of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE.” - The Hollywood Reporter “A monster thrill ride…with rollicking action reminiscent of JURASSIC PARK.” - Boxoffice Magazine Everyone will believe it when they see it! Norwegian director Andre Ovredal (FUTURE MURDER) presents an “enormously entertaining” (Variety) look at a creature thought only to exist in fairy tales when TROLLHUNTER is uncovered on Blu-ray Disc and DVD August 23 from Magnolia Home Entertainment under the Magnet label. Shot in vérité style in the vein of popular films like PARANORMAL ACTIVITY and CLOVERFIELD, TROLLHUNTER follows three Norwegian film students as they travel to the mountains to catch a real-life troll on camera, a creature

    Final cover art for Mill Creek`s GAMERA 3: REVENGE OF IRIS Blu-ray. The disc will be released on September 27th. © 1999 Kadokawa Pictures, Inc.

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    Cover Art and Special Feature News; Plus a DAIMAJIN Update! Author: Keith Aiken Source: Mill Creek Entertainment Special Thanks to Barrett Evans and Roy McAree A SCIFI JAPAN EXCLUSIVE Mill Creek Entertainment has provided some updates regarding their upcoming Blu-ray release of Kadokawa Pictures` GAMERA 3: REVENGE OF IRIS (???3 ?????????, Gamera 3: Jyashin Iris Kakusei, 1999) and the GAMERA TRILOGY Collector`s Edition. The cover artwork for GAMERA 3 has been completely revised and now features images from the film (see the previous design here). The disc also comes with a variety of special features from GAMERA 3 and its prequels, GAMERA: GUARDIAN OF THE UNIVERSE (??? ???????, Gamera Daikaiju Kuchu Kessen, 1995) and GAMERA 2: ATTACK OF THE LEGION (???2 ??????, Gamera 2: Region Shurai, 1996). The selection of bonus material will include... GAMERA: GUARDIAN OF THE UNIVERSE: Gamera Behind the

    Theatrical poster for the 1972 Japanese re-release of DESTROY ALL MONSTERS. © 1968/1972 Toho Co., Ltd.

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    Source: Media Blasters, Inc. press release Special Thanks to Carl Morano Media Blasters Inc. and their Tokyo Shock label are proud to announce the exciting extras and supplementary materials for the upcoming DESTROY ALL MONSTERS DVD and Blu-ray. Media Blasters have enlisted the renowned Godzilla scholars Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski to supervise and create the definitive release for the most beloved of all rubber-suit monster movies ever made. DESTROY ALL MONSTERS (?????, Kaiju Soshingeki, 1968) is universally considered a strong fan favorite of the entire Godzilla series! It’s an all-star monster rally of epic proportions featuring Toho’s greatest and wildest mammoth monsters in the ultimate, all-out rubber suit rumble! See Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, King Ghidorah, Anguirus, Minya, Spiega, Baragon, Gorosaurus, Manda and Varan in all their titanic glory! The film was directed by the famed Ishiro Honda, director of the original 1954 film and the

    Director Takashi Miike presents a melee of bloody carnage in 13 ASSASSINS, coming to DVD and Blu-ray in the UK. Photo courtesy of The Associates. © 13 Assassins Film Partners

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    Source: The Associates press release Official Site: 13assassins.jp (Japan), 13assassins.com (US) Following a hugely successful UK theatrical release that saw it garnering a Five Star review in Time Out and Four Star reviews in Loaded, The Sun, the Daily Express, the Daily Mirror, the Daily Telegraph and Nuts magazine, 13 ASSASSINS (??????, Jusan-nin no Shikaku, 2010) comes to DVD and Blu-ray this September riding a wave of critical acclaim hailing it as “one of the greatest samurai movies ever made… stunning” (Loaded), “one of the most memorable – and shocking – action films in an absolute age… brutal, bloody, brilliant” (Daily Mirror) and “an immediate action classic… magnificent” (Mail On Sunday). 13 ASSASSINS sees director Takashi Miike, the man behind such uncompromising and unforgettable movies as AUDITION and ICHI THE KILLER, indelibly stamping his trademark style on the Samurai genre with an ultra-violent,

    Akira Takizawa and Saki Morimi meet again in PARADISE LOST, the conclusion to EDEN OF THE EAST. © 2010 EDEN OF THE EAST.

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    Second EDEN OF THE EAST Movie Comes to North America on August 23rd Source: FUNimation Entertainment Official Site: juiz.jp (Japan), funimation.com/edenoftheeast (US) Special Thanks to Jackie Smith Who is Mr. Outside? Who will win his twisted game? How did Akira Takizawa become a pawn in the mastermind’s hidden plan? The answers are revealed and the conspiracy unravels in writer/director Kenji Kamiyama`s EDEN OF THE EAST: PARADISE LOST (????? ???? Paradise Lost, Higashi no Eden Gekijooban II: Paradise Lost, 2010), the thrilling feature-length conclusion to the acclaimed anime EDEN OF THE EAST (?????, Higashi no Eden, 2009). Takizawa returns to Japan and hits the ground running. As he makes his final moves against the remaining Seleção, he fights to uncover the secrets of his mysterious past. The deck is stacked against him; he faces accusations of terrorism, and the truth behind his ties to

    GAMERA 3: REVENGE OF IRIS will be released on Blu-ray September 27th. © 1999 Kadokawa Pictures, Inc.

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    Source: Mill Creek Entertainment Special Thanks to Roy McAree Mill Creek Entertainment will follow up last year`s Blu-ray Double Feature of GAMERA: GUARDIAN OF THE UNIVERSE (Gamera Daikaiju Kuchu Kessen, 1995) and GAMERA 2: ATTACK OF THE LEGION (Gamera 2: Region Shurai, 1996) with two more Gamera Blu-ray releases scheduled for September 27th: GAMERA 3: REVENGE OF IRIS (Gamera 3: Iris Kakusei, 1999) and a GAMERA TRILOGY set of all three films. The upcoming releases will complete the acclaimed series by the team of directed Shusuke Kaneko (GMK, DEATH NOTE), writer Kazunori Ito (GHOST IN THE SHELL), and FX director Shinji Higuchi (SINKING OF JAPAN, HIDDEN FORTRESS: THE LAST PRINCESS). The Gamera movies were licensed from Joyplex, Inc., the US sales agent for Kadokawa Pictures, owners of the Gamera franchise. The GAMERA 3 Blu-ray will feature a brand-new high-def transfer from Kadokawa`s original film elements. For anyone

    The cybernetic hero Casshern returns in the anime series CASSHERN SINS, soon to be released in a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack from FUNimation. Photo courtesy of FUNimation Entertainment. © 2008 Tatsunoko Production/ Casshern Sins Project

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    Ruin is the Salvation of Man and Machine this August Source: FUNimation Entertainment Official Site: casshern-sins.jp (Japan), funimation.com/casshernsins (US) Special Thanks to Jackie Smith FUNimation Entertainment will release the complete, 24 episode series of CASSHERN SINS (?????? SINS, Kyashaan Shinsu, 2008) in a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack on August 2nd. CASSHERN SINS is a millennial update of NEO-HUMAN CASSHERN (??????????, Shinzo Ningen Kyashaan, aka CASSHAN, 1973) a beloved classic of Japanese animation which saw a lone cyborg hero opposing a robot empire that threatened to overthrow the Earth. This darker reimagining was produced by Tatsunoko Production (NEO-HUMAN CASSHERN, SPEED RACER, GATCHAMAN) with animation by Madhouse, the studio behind DEATH NOTE, GUNSLINGER GIRL, and SAIKANO. The series was directed by Shigeyasu Yamauchi (DRAGON BALL Z). The unique animation style of CASSHERN SINS was supervised by Yoshihiko Umakoshi (FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST, COWBOY BEEBOP). Casshern - a cybernetic

    High school gang members Moriki Takashi (Kazuki Namioka), Hideki

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    Breaking rules. Breaking faces. Source: FUNimation Entertainment Official Movie Site: FUNimation.com/drop (US), drop-movie.jp (Japan) Special Thanks to Jackie Smith The Japanese teenage delinquent action film DROP (????, Doroppu, 2009) has been released on DVD in North America by FUNimation Entertainment. Set in the 1980s, DROP was written and directed by actor/comedian Hiroshi Shinagawa of the comedy team "Shinagawa Shoki". The movie is based on Shinagawa`s 2006 autobiographical novel which was also adapted as a Monthly Shonen Champion manga by artist Dai Suzuki in 2007. Drawn to the hardcore life of a delinquent after reading the manga Be-Bop Highschool, student Hiroshi (Hiroki Narimiya, AZUMI) drops out of his upscale private school and enrolls in a gritty public school in Komae, Tokyo. On his first day he gets his ass kicked by Tatsuya (Hiro Mizushima, winner of the 2010 Japanese Academy Prize “Rookie of the

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