Naniwa Danshi Member Kento Nagao Plays Young Rohan in Rohan au Louvre Live-action Film
The official website for the forthcoming live-action feature film adaptation of Hirohiko Araki’s Rohan au Louvre manga announced four additional cast today, including Kento Nagao, a 20-year-old member of Johnny & Associates’ boy idol group Naniwa Danshi. This is his acting debut in a theatrically released fictional film.
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Nagao plays the role of the protagonist Rohan Kishibe as a young man who has just made his debut as a manga artist. Also starring are Fumino Kimura as Nanase, Masanobu Ando as Ryunosuke Tatsumi, an oriental art expert, and Minami as Emma Noguchi, an employee of the Louvre. The film reveals Rohan’s unknown roots, including his struggles as a rookie manga artist and his unforgettable encounter with Nanase, a mysterious black-haired woman.
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Message from Kento Nagao:
I was very surprised when I received the offer. As a viewer, I had enjoyed the original manga as well as the drama version in which Issei Takahashi played the role of Rohan, so I was very happy to be able to be a part of this world. I created the character while talking with the director, Watanabe-san, and imagining a lot based on each frame of Rohan’s past that appeared in the original manga. We had a lot of fun shooting the film with the support of the wonderful staff. Finally, I would like to say something simple. Please come to the theater! I hope you will enjoy this wonderful world.
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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, and 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, all return. The feature film is set to be released in Japan on May 26, 2023.
Teaser visual:
Teaser trailer:
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.
“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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