The live-action series based on Hirohiko Araki’s Jojo Bizarre Adventure spin-off, Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan is getting a new film on May 26, based on the standalone story Rohan Au Louvre (Rohan at the Louvre).
Issei Takahashi once again reprises his role as the titular Kishibe Rohan, and Marie Iitoyo is also returning as Rohan’s editor. The film will be directed by Kazutaka Watanabe, with the script by Yasuko Kobayashi who worked did the script for the Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Anime. Naruyoshi Kikuchi also returns as the music composer, with Isao Tsuge on character design, Naoko Saitō, Keisuke Tsuchihashi, and Sangkeun Han are production coordinators. NHK Enterprises, NHK, and P.I.C.S. are producing the film.
Issei Takahashi told fans to consider this film as the ninth episode in the Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan series, and also revealed that the film is currently being filmed in France where the story takes place.
▍Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Au Louvre Live Action Film Trailer
▍ About Rohan Au Louvre
Rohan Au Louvre / Rohan at the Louvre is an original manga created by Hirohiko Araki for the Louvre art museum, during the 2009 exhibit The Louvre invites the Comics. This manga was the first piece exhibited and then published by the Musée du Louvre Editions. This work precedes the Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan series by about eight years.
The story follows Kishibe Rohan as the narrator, before asking the reader “Have you ever seen the blackest color in all the world?” a question he links to an incident at the Louvre where four people reportedly vanished at the museum. Through a series of flashbacks and current events, Rohan remembers a young woman he once had a crush on named Nanase Fujikura, who tells him the story of a cursed painting that was eventually sold to the Louvre.
Rohan then goes on a journey to the Louvre where he encounters a mystery behind the painting, and the Louvre’s insistence on keeping the painting despite the dangers it poses.
