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Directed by | Shigeaki Kubo |
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Cinematography | Terukuni Ajisaka |
Music by | Yuta Nakano |
Distributed by | Shochiku |
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Running time | 129 minutes [1] |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Box office | ¥2.1 billion [2] |
High&Low The Movie (stylized as HiGH&LOW THE MOVIE) is a 2016 Japanese action film directed by Shigeaki Kubo. The film's ensemble cast includes a large number of members of the Exile Tribe, Takanori Iwata, Akira, Sho Aoyagi, Takahiro and Hiroomi Tosaka for instances, but also actors like Kento Hayashi, Masataka Kubota, and Yuki Yamada. [1] [3] It is the first original film of the High&Low franchise, which follows the story of television series High&Low: The Story of S.W.O.R.D. [4] [5] The film continues to tell the stories of the five gangs that control the SWORD area. It was announced on 11 August 2015 as the centre of the High&Low entertainment project when the project was announced. [6] [7] [8] [9]
High&Low The Movie premiered in Tokyo on 4 July 2016 with more than 50 people appeared on its stage greeting event in Tokyo International Forum and was released in Japan by Shochiku on 16 July 2016. The film was released in South Korea on 12 January 2017 and in Taiwan on 20 January 2017. [10] To celebrated the release of the film, 36 actors and singers, who took part in the High&Low project, participated in a series of stage greetings events held in 143 cinemas in all 47 prefectures of Japan in 3 days. [11] It grossed ¥2.1 billion and attracted 1.6 million audiences. [2]
A town which was once dominated by Mugen has been split into 5 districts dominated by five gangs named Sannoh Rengokai, White Rascals, Oya Koukou, Rude Boys and Daruma Ikka. The town is also known as the S.W.O.R.D. area. Mugen's grip on the town ended after the legendary Amamiya brothers refused to submit to their will.
The 5 gangs that comprise S.W.O.R.D. fight for their pride and glory, but the mysterious new gang called Mighty Warriors who newly comes to the coastal regions near the S.W.O.R.D. area begins to challenge their reigns. Kohaku, who is the former leader of the powerful Mugen, is devastated over the death of his close friend Tatsuya. Kohaku is approached by Lee from Chanson, a mafia from South Korea. Chanson is working with the local yakuza group called Kuryu Group to gain control of the area together and Lee induces Kohaku to join the plan.
To achieve this goal, Chanson and Kuryu Group also enlist the help of the vicious gang D.O.U.B.T. and Mighty Warriors to cause havoc in all five districts of the S.W.O.R.D. area. Mighty Warriors sets the Nameless Road ablaze, killing some of the residents there. The S.W.O.R.D. gang joins to defeat Kohaku and his five hundred men to protect their town. The Amamiya Brothers also join the 5 SWORD gangs in the fatal fight. In the fight, Kohaku realizes his mistake and the S.W.O.R.D gang thwarts Lee's plan, thus winning the fatal fight.
Hiroyuki Takaya portrays Ohta, and Yushin Okami portrays Konishi, both former members of Mugen and now boxers working overseas. Shogo Iwaya appears as Ken, and Shogo Yamamoto appears as Hikaru. Both of them joined Sannoh Rengokai (Hoodlum Squad) under the recommendation of Tettsu. Shō Kiryūin plays Aizawa, Yutaka Kyan plays Bito, Jun Utahiroba plays Enari, Kenji Darvish plays Shimura. As members of the White Rascals, the four of them always work together. Takayuki Suzuki appears as Hideto Furuya, vice-leader of Oya Koukou (Oya High School), who have a strong belief in Murayama. Wataru Ichinose plays Kotaro Seki, the 25-year-old Oya Koukou (Oya High School) part-time school student who puts himself under the command Murayama. Ryu and Takahide Suzuki play Oya Koukou (Oya High School) full-time school students, Sibaman and Tsuji, respectively. Zen appears as P, a Rude Boys member and their best Traceur. Kaname Endo, Ryouhei Abe, Yuta Ozawa appear as Daruma Ikka's members, Ukyo,Sakyo,Shu Kato, respectively. Tokuma Nishioka,Kazuyuki Matsuzawa, Hayato Onozuka portray Iemurakai of Kuryu Group's executives, Ishii, Kawada, and Kirinji, respectively. Hakuryu appears as Chanson's boss Chang. Taichi Saotome and Japanese rapper ANARCHY play Mighty Warriors's members Ryu and 9, respectively. Kouhei Takeda appears as Hirai, a member of Doubt. Members of the female gang Ichigo Milk include Ayano Kudo as Asuka, Kaede as Shiba, Harumi Sato as Oshiage, Nonoka Yamaguchi as Nonoriki, Airi Kido as Ishikawa. Shiba is Sibaman's older sister and does part-time job at "Dan Shoten", while Nonoriki is a female student in Oya Koukou (Oya High School). Other people living on Sannoh shopping street include Masayasu Yagi as Kabuto Ijuin, Ayumu Kato as Kakuto Ijuin, Nozomi Bando as Nika Ijuin, Kousei Amano as Ozawa. The Ijuin brothers have a barbershop, and their sister Nika does part-time job at diner "Itokan". Kaoru Hirata portrays Noburu's former girlfriend Miho. [12]
High&Low The Movie premiered in Tokyo in Tokyo International Forum Hall A on July 4, 2016. With more than 50 people appeared on its stage greeting event, it is a "massive" premiere that has never been seen in Japan. The massive group of participants included director Sigeaki Kubo, producer Hiroyuki Ueno, project producer Exile Hiro, screenwriter Norihisa Hiranuma, and 46 actors who appeared in the film. [10] The film was released in Japan on July 16, 2016. To celebrated the release of the film, 36 actors, and singers who took part in the High&Low project participated in a series of stage greetings events held in 143 cinemas in 3 days, covering all 47 prefectures of Japan. [11]
On January 12, 2017, High&Low The Movie was released in South Korea. [7] [8]
On September 29, the international premiere of the High&Low series was held in Taipei at Lux Cinema. Takahiro and Hiroomi Tosaka attended the event and greeted their Chinese fans with Chinese. [13] [14] On January 20, 2017, High&Low The Movie and its spin-off High&Low The Red Rain were released in Taiwan simultaneously. [9]
High&Low The Movie was second placed at the Japanese box office on its opening, grossing ¥668.3 million. [15] 80% of its first weekend audiences are female. [16] On its second weekend, it was fifth placed, and reached a total gross of over ¥1 billion. [17] The film grossed 2.1 billion yen in total and attracted 1.6 million audiences. [2]
Reiichi Narima described the film as chaos with too many characters on screens, and audiences would "find it hard to focus on any of them" without an obvious main character. Meanwhile, Narima stated that "the fact that it has no deciding main character may just be the essence of the Exile Tribe and is in tune with the times". He also pointed out that "the story of Kohaku might resonate with male audiences." [18] Yousuke Fujimoto considered the film to be special, writing that "all characters are produced based on the personality of the actor himself, which achieved a sense of harmony. " Moreover, Yosuke pointed out the related music of the High&Low franchise was also very important. He wrote, "After watching the movie, if you hear the theme songs of any gang, the scenes of films will immediately come to your mind." [19]
High&Low The Red Rain is a spin-off that focus on the story of the Amamiya Brothers. It was released on October 8, 2016, and directed by Yūdai Yamaguchi. [20]
High&Low The Movie 2 / End of Sky was released on August 19, 2017. It was directed by Sigeaki Kubo and Tsuyoshi Nakakuki. [21]
High&Low The Movie 3 / Final Mission was released on November 11, 2017. It was directed by Sigeaki Kubo and Tsuyoshi Nakakuki. [22]
DTC -Yukemuri Junjou Hen- from High&Low is a spin-off that focus on a trip of Sannoh Rengokai (Hoodlum Squad)'s members Dan, Tettsu and Chiharu, the small sub-unit DTC. It was released on September 28, 2018, and directed by Sigeaki Kubo. [23]
High&Low The Worst is a spin-off that focus on Oya Koukou (Oya High School). It was released on October 4, 2019, and directed by Sigeaki Kubo. [24]
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High&Low The Movie | |
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![]() Poster | |
Directed by | Shigeaki Kubo |
Screenplay by |
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Produced by |
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Cinematography | Terukuni Ajisaka |
Music by | Yuta Nakano |
Distributed by | Shochiku |
Release date |
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Running time | 129 minutes [1] |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Box office | ¥2.1 billion [2] |
High&Low The Movie (stylized as HiGH&LOW THE MOVIE) is a 2016 Japanese action film directed by Shigeaki Kubo. The film's ensemble cast includes a large number of members of the Exile Tribe, Takanori Iwata, Akira, Sho Aoyagi, Takahiro and Hiroomi Tosaka for instances, but also actors like Kento Hayashi, Masataka Kubota, and Yuki Yamada. [1] [3] It is the first original film of the High&Low franchise, which follows the story of television series High&Low: The Story of S.W.O.R.D. [4] [5] The film continues to tell the stories of the five gangs that control the SWORD area. It was announced on 11 August 2015 as the centre of the High&Low entertainment project when the project was announced. [6] [7] [8] [9]
High&Low The Movie premiered in Tokyo on 4 July 2016 with more than 50 people appeared on its stage greeting event in Tokyo International Forum and was released in Japan by Shochiku on 16 July 2016. The film was released in South Korea on 12 January 2017 and in Taiwan on 20 January 2017. [10] To celebrated the release of the film, 36 actors and singers, who took part in the High&Low project, participated in a series of stage greetings events held in 143 cinemas in all 47 prefectures of Japan in 3 days. [11] It grossed ¥2.1 billion and attracted 1.6 million audiences. [2]
A town which was once dominated by Mugen has been split into 5 districts dominated by five gangs named Sannoh Rengokai, White Rascals, Oya Koukou, Rude Boys and Daruma Ikka. The town is also known as the S.W.O.R.D. area. Mugen's grip on the town ended after the legendary Amamiya brothers refused to submit to their will.
The 5 gangs that comprise S.W.O.R.D. fight for their pride and glory, but the mysterious new gang called Mighty Warriors who newly comes to the coastal regions near the S.W.O.R.D. area begins to challenge their reigns. Kohaku, who is the former leader of the powerful Mugen, is devastated over the death of his close friend Tatsuya. Kohaku is approached by Lee from Chanson, a mafia from South Korea. Chanson is working with the local yakuza group called Kuryu Group to gain control of the area together and Lee induces Kohaku to join the plan.
To achieve this goal, Chanson and Kuryu Group also enlist the help of the vicious gang D.O.U.B.T. and Mighty Warriors to cause havoc in all five districts of the S.W.O.R.D. area. Mighty Warriors sets the Nameless Road ablaze, killing some of the residents there. The S.W.O.R.D. gang joins to defeat Kohaku and his five hundred men to protect their town. The Amamiya Brothers also join the 5 SWORD gangs in the fatal fight. In the fight, Kohaku realizes his mistake and the S.W.O.R.D gang thwarts Lee's plan, thus winning the fatal fight.
Hiroyuki Takaya portrays Ohta, and Yushin Okami portrays Konishi, both former members of Mugen and now boxers working overseas. Shogo Iwaya appears as Ken, and Shogo Yamamoto appears as Hikaru. Both of them joined Sannoh Rengokai (Hoodlum Squad) under the recommendation of Tettsu. Shō Kiryūin plays Aizawa, Yutaka Kyan plays Bito, Jun Utahiroba plays Enari, Kenji Darvish plays Shimura. As members of the White Rascals, the four of them always work together. Takayuki Suzuki appears as Hideto Furuya, vice-leader of Oya Koukou (Oya High School), who have a strong belief in Murayama. Wataru Ichinose plays Kotaro Seki, the 25-year-old Oya Koukou (Oya High School) part-time school student who puts himself under the command Murayama. Ryu and Takahide Suzuki play Oya Koukou (Oya High School) full-time school students, Sibaman and Tsuji, respectively. Zen appears as P, a Rude Boys member and their best Traceur. Kaname Endo, Ryouhei Abe, Yuta Ozawa appear as Daruma Ikka's members, Ukyo,Sakyo,Shu Kato, respectively. Tokuma Nishioka,Kazuyuki Matsuzawa, Hayato Onozuka portray Iemurakai of Kuryu Group's executives, Ishii, Kawada, and Kirinji, respectively. Hakuryu appears as Chanson's boss Chang. Taichi Saotome and Japanese rapper ANARCHY play Mighty Warriors's members Ryu and 9, respectively. Kouhei Takeda appears as Hirai, a member of Doubt. Members of the female gang Ichigo Milk include Ayano Kudo as Asuka, Kaede as Shiba, Harumi Sato as Oshiage, Nonoka Yamaguchi as Nonoriki, Airi Kido as Ishikawa. Shiba is Sibaman's older sister and does part-time job at "Dan Shoten", while Nonoriki is a female student in Oya Koukou (Oya High School). Other people living on Sannoh shopping street include Masayasu Yagi as Kabuto Ijuin, Ayumu Kato as Kakuto Ijuin, Nozomi Bando as Nika Ijuin, Kousei Amano as Ozawa. The Ijuin brothers have a barbershop, and their sister Nika does part-time job at diner "Itokan". Kaoru Hirata portrays Noburu's former girlfriend Miho. [12]
High&Low The Movie premiered in Tokyo in Tokyo International Forum Hall A on July 4, 2016. With more than 50 people appeared on its stage greeting event, it is a "massive" premiere that has never been seen in Japan. The massive group of participants included director Sigeaki Kubo, producer Hiroyuki Ueno, project producer Exile Hiro, screenwriter Norihisa Hiranuma, and 46 actors who appeared in the film. [10] The film was released in Japan on July 16, 2016. To celebrated the release of the film, 36 actors, and singers who took part in the High&Low project participated in a series of stage greetings events held in 143 cinemas in 3 days, covering all 47 prefectures of Japan. [11]
On January 12, 2017, High&Low The Movie was released in South Korea. [7] [8]
On September 29, the international premiere of the High&Low series was held in Taipei at Lux Cinema. Takahiro and Hiroomi Tosaka attended the event and greeted their Chinese fans with Chinese. [13] [14] On January 20, 2017, High&Low The Movie and its spin-off High&Low The Red Rain were released in Taiwan simultaneously. [9]
High&Low The Movie was second placed at the Japanese box office on its opening, grossing ¥668.3 million. [15] 80% of its first weekend audiences are female. [16] On its second weekend, it was fifth placed, and reached a total gross of over ¥1 billion. [17] The film grossed 2.1 billion yen in total and attracted 1.6 million audiences. [2]
Reiichi Narima described the film as chaos with too many characters on screens, and audiences would "find it hard to focus on any of them" without an obvious main character. Meanwhile, Narima stated that "the fact that it has no deciding main character may just be the essence of the Exile Tribe and is in tune with the times". He also pointed out that "the story of Kohaku might resonate with male audiences." [18] Yousuke Fujimoto considered the film to be special, writing that "all characters are produced based on the personality of the actor himself, which achieved a sense of harmony. " Moreover, Yosuke pointed out the related music of the High&Low franchise was also very important. He wrote, "After watching the movie, if you hear the theme songs of any gang, the scenes of films will immediately come to your mind." [19]
High&Low The Red Rain is a spin-off that focus on the story of the Amamiya Brothers. It was released on October 8, 2016, and directed by Yūdai Yamaguchi. [20]
High&Low The Movie 2 / End of Sky was released on August 19, 2017. It was directed by Sigeaki Kubo and Tsuyoshi Nakakuki. [21]
High&Low The Movie 3 / Final Mission was released on November 11, 2017. It was directed by Sigeaki Kubo and Tsuyoshi Nakakuki. [22]
DTC -Yukemuri Junjou Hen- from High&Low is a spin-off that focus on a trip of Sannoh Rengokai (Hoodlum Squad)'s members Dan, Tettsu and Chiharu, the small sub-unit DTC. It was released on September 28, 2018, and directed by Sigeaki Kubo. [23]
High&Low The Worst is a spin-off that focus on Oya Koukou (Oya High School). It was released on October 4, 2019, and directed by Sigeaki Kubo. [24]
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