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Live-Action Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe: At a Confessional Film Streams on Prime Video in 160 Countries on September 12
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The film opened in Japan on May 23.
Issei Takahashi (Whisper of the Heart, live-action Ikebukuro West Gate Park, March comes in like a lion) reprised the title role from the previous nine television installments and film. Marie Itoyo also returned after playing Kyoka Izumi in previous installments.
Kazutaka Watanabe returned direct the new film at NHK Enterprises and P.I.C.S. Yasuko Kobayashi returned after scripting most of the previous live-action installments and the various JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime. Naruyoshi Kikuchi also returned to compose the music with Shin Ongaku Seisaku Kōbō. Isao Tsuge again supervised the character designs and costume design. ASMIK Ace distributed the film.
The live-action Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan series' first three episodes debuted in December 2020 for three consecutive nights on the NHK General channel. The second installment of three episodes premiered at the end of December 2021 for three consecutive nights as well. Two more episodes premiered in December 2023. The series' overall ninth episode (not including the live-action film) premiered in May 2024.
The live-action film of Hirohiko Araki's Kishibe Rohan Louvre e Iku (Rohan at the Louvre, or literally, Rohan Kishibe Goes to the Louvre; Rohan au Louvre in French) manga opened in Japan in May 2023. The film debuted on Amazon Prime Video in Japan, France, and 160 other countries and territories around the world in September 2023. Amazon Prime Video is also streaming the other entries in the live-action franchise.
The JoJo's Bizarre Adventure spinoff manga's 11th story titled "Dripping Gahō-hen" (Dripping Art Technique) debuted in Shueisha's Ultra Jump magazine in April 2022, with its second part premiering that May. The 12th story episode titled "Bruschetta" was released in Shueisha's Ultra Jump magazine on April 18.
The anime studio david production adapted two Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan stories as original anime DVDs. The "Fugō Mura" (Millionaire Village) episode was available for people who purchased all 13 DVD or Blu-ray Disc volumes of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable anime in 2017. The "Mutsukabezaka" (Mutsukabe Hill) episode was bundled with the manga's second volume in 2018. Crunchyroll screened the overseas premiere of "Fugō Mura" at its Crunchyroll Expo event in August 2019. david production then produced two new episodes, "Zange-shitsu" (Confessional Room) and "The Run," which played at nine screenings at six cities in Japan between December 2020 and March 2021.
Netflix began streaming the anime globally in February 2021.
Sources: Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe: At a Confessional film's X/Twitter account, Cinema Today (石川友里恵)
