Sins Of Kujo Film Teaser Adds Six Cast Members Ahead Of January 8 Opening
The teaser fills in the supporting ranks around Yuuya Yagira and Hokuto Matsumura with actors cast as yakuza and swindlers, which puts the film's weight on the same crime-world periphery the Netflix series drew from.
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The live-action film of Shohei Manabe's Sins of Kujo began streaming a new teaser on Thursday, adding six cast members. Kiyohiko Shibukawa plays Takehito Mitarashi, Haru Kuroki plays Kanako Kujo, Yui Narumi plays Rui Ota, Eita Okuno plays Uji, Mutsuo Yoshioka plays Karigane, and Yu Tokui plays Kajiya. The film opens in Japan on January 8, 2027.
The teaser names the parts each new actor takes. Shibukawa is Takehito Mitarashi, sworn brother of yakuza boss Kyogoku. Kuroki is Kanako Kujo, Taiza Kujo's ex-wife, raising a daughter on her own. Narumi is Rui Ota, a dating app swindler who hires Kujo as her lawyer. Okuno, Yoshioka, and Tokui play a young yakuza lieutenant, an aide to the head of the Fushimi group, and a former member of a militant yakuza group.
Yuuya Yagira returns as Taiza Kujo and Hokuto Matsumura as Shinji Karasuma, both reprising roles from the live-action series. Nobuhiro Doi directs from a script by Nonji Nemoto, and the staff and other cast from the series return.
- Kiyohiko Shibukawa: as Takehito Mitarashi, sworn brother of yakuza crime boss Kyogoku
- Haru Kuroki: as Kanako Kujo, Taiza Kujo's ex-wife, raising a daughter as a single mother
- Yui Narumi: as Rui Ota, a dating app swindler who hires Taiza Kujo as a lawyer
- Eita Okuno: as Uji, a young yakuza lieutenant
- Mutsuo Yoshioka: as Karigane, an aide of the head of the Fushimi group yakuza
- Yu Tokui: as Kajiya, a former member of a militant yakuza group
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- Anime News Network News Live-Action Sins of Kujo Film's Teaser Reveals More Cast