The happiest adaptation of the live-action film
Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe, a series of the spinoff of Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Adapted as a live-action drama produced by NHK with the same title, this is the work that embodies the bizarre and beautiful perspectives of the original by resonating actors of Issei Takahashi as Rohan and Iitoyo Marie as Kyoka Izumi, sets, costumes, lights, camerawork, and the score by Naruyoshi Kikuchi.
Kazutaka Watanabe, Issei Takahashi Rohan au Louvre (Rohan at the Louvre) NHK Enterprise（2024）
Rohan au Louvre (Rohan at the Louvre) which was released last year is the film version of it. Casts and staff stay the same from the drama version. Such major motives in horror movies as “the darkest and the blackest painting” and “the currently unused basement storage in the Louvre” and Rohan’s past and roots are so entangled intricately that the movie sounds like a film noir. In the first place, the original comic itself has a background story that was commissioned from the Louvre to Araki as the “Louvre BD (Bande Dessinée) Project” and got inspiration from the actual investigation conducted by the author himself. It is one of the highlights that the shooting in the normally forbidden area inside the Louvre was permitted.
The scene of the joint appearance with the authentic Mona Lisa and Takahashi as Rohan is an extremely surrealistic expression of the inseparability between truth and falsehood. The Eiffel Tower, The Arc de Triomphe, Hayama Kachi Tei (Hayakma Kachi’s House), Mukaitaki, and Oya Stone Quarry Site... I can not help but get excited to see historical and artistic architectural monuments beyond time and space blending in the movie to constitute Rohan’s world. Popular theme music “Great Interregnum” from the TV series is also well-fitted but the exotic session of the ensemble with nagauta, electronic music, and gamelan. credited as “Shin-On-Gak” founded by Kikuchi together with his tutees, is a special outcome that only film could bring about.
The package released this time includes the benefits of 2 discs including interviews with casts and behind-the-scenes video, and a special booklet. Additionally, the deluxe edition encloses the acrylic postcard holder made in the shape of Kishibe Rohan. I hope to be intoxicated by the ownership of the physical product.
