| A live action movie of "Kaiji" will be premiered on October 10th. The biggest alternation in the setting is that Endou Yuuji was switched with a lady Endou Rinko played by Amami Yuki (official website). Fujiwara Tatsuya (official website) plays the main character Itou Kaiji. Fujiwara played Yagami Light in the live action movie of Death Note. Source: Nataile |
freedo-May 22, 2009 11:51 AM
| Fujiwara's ok, does the best he can with shitty scripts he's given, and I've never seen Kaiji, but he doesnt look the gamblish type. Kaiji watchers, what do you think? |
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| Suddenly, less manly Kaiji. |
| ummm, no, this isn't right.. *sob* but i can see why they're doing this. they don't want the movie to be directed towards the same specific demographic that the manga/anime was. by changing endou to a woman and adding an extremely popular actor among women, the original demographic is now stretched out to include women. they'll get a bigger audience = more money. |
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| movie ruined |
freedoleen said: What the... there shouldn't be any women in an adaptation of Kaiji.  |
Cihan said: Depends. Will he be wearing a chin prosthetic?Fujiwara's ok, does the best he can with shitty scripts he's given, and I've never seen Kaiji, but he doesnt look the gamblish type. Kaiji watchers, what do you think? He looks kind of loserish though, just like Kaiji. |
RetroRainbow said: freedoleen said: What the... there shouldn't be any women in an adaptation of Kaiji. *Pic* My world just turned upside down. |
| Wow, this sounds more awful than live action adaptations of manga/anime usually sound. Fujiwara is a decent actor, but I simply can't picture him as Kaiji. |
Absolutely_Steve said: Wow, this sounds more awful than live action adaptations of manga/anime usually sound. Fujiwara is a decent actor, but I simply can't picture him as Kaiji. I know. He looks too bishounen for a role like Kaiji (pathetic thug -> elite gambler). |
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| Fujiwara is too bishounen for Kaiji. and that woman is fail. though I generally don't really like doramas maybe I'll give it a shot. |
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| WHAT. Fujiwara's unfit for Kaiji's role. I'd rather have his seiyuu doing it than him. |
freedoleen said: What the... there shouldn't be any women in an adaptation of Kaiji. Agreed. Regardless, the idea is at least mildly intriguing, and unlike the series, hopefully the live action film won't be a commercial failure despite its tremendous degree of quality. |
| Also, inb4 romance |
| That's very funny, but it looks enjoyable to watch. |
RetroRainbow said: freedoleen said: What the... there shouldn't be any women in an adaptation of Kaiji. That and there was a girl working at the convenience store that Kaiji and Sahara used to work at before they did the human derby. Either way it does tone down one of the manliest series ever. Though it could have been worse if like say Tonegawa was played by a woman. But still, this is one heavy blow to the Kaiji fanbase. |
Sakata-sanApr 27, 2009 1:06 PM
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| DO NOT WANT WOMAN |
| I loled... Seriously.. what are they thinking. Still gotta check the LA coouuuuld be that its actually good. |
| BTW MORE AWESOME NEWS THE FOURTH KAIJI MANGA STARTS IN JUNE! |
| Women in Kaiji? I don't remember a single one xD BAD idea. |
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Plate said: Also, inb4 romance wtf??? o_0 what romance are they talking about??? Kaiji has only one passion - gambling. |
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Iahel said: Plate said: Also, inb4 romance wtf??? o_0 what romance are they talking about??? Kaiji has only one passion - gambling. you'd think so wouldn't you :( |
Plate said: Also, inb4 romance Mother of god.... The Kaiji LA is going to be terrible. |
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| Not good news. But live action films are never good anyway. |
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| Fuck yes. Even if this live action is bad, I'll still watch this. |
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| What? Fujiwara Tatsuya doing the Kaiji role doesn't sound good.. I never watched the Kaiji anime series, didn't like it. Just because Fujiwara-kun is taking the role of Kaiji in the live-action version doesn't mean I will watch it either.. Fujiwara Tatsuya did a great job as Yagami Light in the live-action Death Note series. 10/10!!! |
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| this is just bad, no amount of blind optimism or hope will convince me otherwise |
Iahel said: Plate said: Also, inb4 romance wtf??? o_0 what romance are they talking about??? Kaiji has only one passion - gambling. Liquidize said: Fuck yes. Even if this live action is bad, I'll still watch this. Same. |
| WTF |
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kie_ said: WTF Read the manga or die. |
Darkii said: I wouldn't call her a girlfriend. =V |
| I can't believe no one has said this yet: |
| lmao fail. |
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| Fujiwara-san is also voicing one of the characters in Ryu ga Gotoku 4.. Nonetheless, since I didn't watch the anime, I will not watch this either.^^ |
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| So Kaiji is another one of those manly obsessed shows eh? Staying a mile away from this anime, then. |
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| Fujiwara Tatsuya !!!!!!!!!!! hmmm...not SO MANLY D: |
| You know, I'm kinda into the idea at play here, for the apparent genderbending aspect. Also just to smite the mordern GAR fandom community. You know, GAR actually used to be a cool thing, when it was all about homomasculinity. |
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| Kaiji isn't really a manly obsessed show, it's just that it happens to have an all-male cast. All of the characters are either poor wusses or sadistic rich people. |
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| Hi-la-ri-ous. |
| Lol, THIS ISN'T MANLY :( |
| Kaiji needs a bad ass actor to play his role ......moe Kaiji |
| From Light to kaiji? |
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Sakata-san said: Though it could have been worse if like say Tonegawa was played by a woman. Oh God, why would you even make me imagine that. And everyone's forgetting Ishida-san's wife. Although she...didn't have any lines. And we never saw her face. Whatever, in Kaiji, you gotta take what you can get as far as women. |
ukonkivi said: So Kaiji is another one of those manly obsessed shows eh? Staying a mile away from this anime, then. And it has a HUGE female fanbase. |
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