#Usogui Live-action Film Teaser Trailer Signals The Start of The Ultimate Gamble
“#Usogui Live-action Film Teaser Trailer Signals The Start of The Ultimate Gamble”
The official website for the forthcoming live-action film adaptation of Toshio Sako’s gambling-themed manga Usogui (The Lie Eater) has posted a 30-second teaser trailer introducing the protagonist Baku Madarame’s signature phrase, “You’re a liar.” The production of the film was announced back in 2016 as the manga’s 10th-anniversary project. The site has also announced that the Hideo Nakta (the Ring series)-directed film is set to be released in Japan on February 11, 2022.
The manga was serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Young Jump from 2006 to 2018 and has printed 8.8 million copies in 49 tankobon volumes. Its OVA adaptation directed by Kazuo Tomizawa was bundled with the limited edition of the manga’s 26th volume released in 2012.
Its story centers on a high IQ genius gambler, Baku Madarame, who is called Usogui (The Lie Eater), in a head-to-head psychological battle for life and death with top cheaters at Kakerou, a black-ops club that controls Japan’s political and business world. 25-yesr-old Ryusei Yokohama (Hikari Nonomura / ToQ 4gou in the 2014 Super Sentai TV series Ressha Sentai ToQger) is cast as the protagonist Baku Madarame.
Teaser trailer:
Teaser visual with the tagline “If you lie, you will die.”
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