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Live-Action Shinjuku Swan Trailer Unveils Insert Song
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website of the live-action film of Ken Wakui's Shinjuku Swan manga began streaming a trailer for the film on Friday. The trailer previews the film's story, as well as the film's insert song "Collide" by UVERworld and theme song "Dive" by MAN WITH A MISSION, and notes its May 30 opening date.
Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine announced on March 2013 that Shion Sono (Suicide Club) will direct the film with the following cast:
- Gō Ayano (Gatchaman) as Tatsuhiko Shiratori
- Takayuki Yamada (Densha Otoko) as Jin Yamashiro
- Erika Sawajiri (Helter Skelter) as Ageha
- Yusuke Iseya (Casshern) as Mako
The official website also announced additional cast on Thursday:
- Nobuaki Kaneko (Crows Zero II) as Yutaka Hayama
- Motoki Fukami (Crows Zero) as Gensuke Seki
- Yu Yamada (Paradise Kiss) as Ryoko
- Kōsuke Toyohara (Densha Otoko) as Kami Yamashiro
- Kōtarō Yoshida (Wild 7) as Shuzen Amano
- Jun Murakami (Michiko & Hatchin) as Tokimasa
- Yūki Kubota (Kamen Rider: The Next) as Yosuke
- Erina Mano (The Next Generation -Patlabor-) as Eiko
- Manami Marutaka (Juho 2405: Watashi ga Shinu Wake) as Riko
- Ken Yasuda (Spirited Away) as Matsukata
The manga follows Tatsuhiko Shiratori, a 19-year-old with no money or job in the (in)famous Kabukichō red-light district of Tokyo's Shinjuku ward. Then one day, a man named Mako recruits him to become a scout. Tatsuhiko's job has him finding new talent for clubs, adult videos, and other areas of Kabukichō's night life. Tatsuhiko has taken his first step into the cutthroat business of Tokyo's underworld.
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Wakui launched the manga in Young Magazine in 2005, and Kodansha published the 38th volume in December. The manga already inspired a six-episode live-action television series in 2007. In that version, Yōsuke Kawamura played Tatsuhiko.
Source: Comic Natalie