Issei Takahashi-starring Rohan au Louvre Live-action Film Hits Japanese Theaters on May 26
A live-action feature film adaptation of Hirohiko Araki’s Rohan au Louvre manga is confirmed to be released in Japan on May 26, 2023. The film’s official website opens today with a teaser visual and teaser trailer. The tagline is: “Chasing the mystery of the blackest and most evil painting in the world to the Hall of Beauty.”
Teaser visual:
Teaser trailer:
Rohan au Louvre is one of the episodes in Thus spoke Kishibe Rohan, a spin-off to Araki’s long-running JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure series. The protagonist Rohan Kishibe is one of the main characters in JoJo’s fourth installment, Diamond is Unbreakable. Its live-action TV drama series starring Issei Takahashi as Rohan has been aired on NHK General TV for three seasons since 2020. The TV drama’s main staff and cast members, including Takahashi and Marie Iitoyo as Kyoka Izumi, will return.
In 2009, as Araki’s first full-color work, Rohan au Louvre was drawn for a bande dessinée project at the Louvre Museum in France. It was the first time for a Japanese manga artist to have their work exhibited at the Louvre.
Filming in Japan, which began last fall, has been completed and is now continuing in Paris, France. The locations in France include the Louvre Museum, the Pont des Arts, the Champs-Elysées, the Arc de Triomphe, the Alexandre III Bridge, the Place Carrousel, and other famous landmarks.
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“Rohan au Louvre” Japanese edition cover:
Synopsis:
As Rohan, a young Japanese manga artist, is drawing, he meets a mysterious, beautiful woman who tells him of a cursed 200-year-old painting. The painting was created using the blackest ink ever known, which came from a 1,000-year-old tree that the painter had cut down without the approval of the Emperor. The painter was executed for this, but the painting was saved from destruction by a curator of the Louvre. A decade later, Rohan visits Paris and asks the museum to unearth the painting from deep within its archives—but he is completely unprepared for the power of the curse he has unleashed.
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Source: “Rohan au Louvre” live-action film official website / Twitter
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