A new trailer for the live-action adaptation of gambling animé Kakegurui was released this Friday, entertainment website Cinema Today reports. According to the trailer, the movie is set for a May 3 release in Japanese cinemas.
The movie features an original story collaborated on by the manga’s author Homura Kawamoto. The original cast for the live-action TV adaptation of Kakegurui reprise their roles for the movie, with Minami Hamabe playing lead character Yumeko Jabami, Mahiro Takasugi as Ryota Suzui, and Aoi Morikawa as Mary Saotome. Soraru is performing the movie’s theme song “I Fake Me”.
The Kakegurui live-action movie will be directed by Hayato Kawai, who also directed the live-action movie adaptations of Nisekoi and Ore Monogatari (My Love Story). Kakegurui’s second season is also set to premiere on March 31. Its first season aired last January 2018.
Written by Homura Kawamoto with illustrations by Toru Naomura, Kakegurui: Compulsive Gambler was first serialized in Square Enix’s Gangan Joker on March 2014. The story is set in the elite Hyakkaou Private Academy, where gambling determines the social status and future of its students. This system is shaken when Jabami Yumeko transfers into the school and joins the gambles for the mere thrill of the games. As her insane gambling ways start to disrupt the hierarchy of the school, the student council desperately look for ways to shut her down.