'JoJo's Bizarre Adventure' Live-Action Film to Premiere in Japan on August 4

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A live-action film adaptation of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is set to premiere in Japan this August. The movie will be based on Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable manga. This is the fourth part of Araki’s Jojo manga set in Morioh and follows the misadventures of Jōsuke Higashikata.

You can check out the teaser for the film below:

Takashi Miike, a prolific filmmaker will be directing the film.

After its successful shooting in Sitges, Spain, the film production is now shooting in Japan. Below is the official cast for this movie.

Kento Yamazaki (Orange, Your Lie in April, Heroine Shikkaku, Wolf Girl and Black Prince, live-action Death Note television) as Jōsuke Higashikata

Ryunosuke Kamiki (Howl’s Moving Castle, The Secret World of Arrietty, Bakuman., Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno) as Kōichi Hirose

Nana Komatsu (Bakuman., Kin Kyori Renai, World of Kanako) as Yukako Yamagishi

Masaki Okada (Hana-Kimi, Boku no Hatsukoi o Kimi ni Sasagu, Otomen, Mahō Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto, Space Brothers) as Keichō Nijimura

Mackenyu (Chihayafuru) as Okuyasu Nijimura

Takayuki Yamada (Bakuman., Terraformars, Crows Zero, Gantz) as Anjūrō Katagiri

Yusuke Iseya (Casshern, Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno, Shinjuku Swan, Honey and Clover) as Jōtarō Kūjō

Alisa Mizuki (Doraemon: Nobita no Space Heroes) as Tomoko Higashikata

Jun Kunimura (Attack on Titan, Chihayafuru, The Wind Rises, Ichi the Killer) as Ryōhei Higashikata

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