#Watch First 5 Minutes of Ryusei Yokohama-starring Usogui Live-action Film

Warner Brothers Japan’s official YouTube channel has started streaming the first five minutes of the live-action film adaptation of Toshio Sako’s gambling-themed manga Usogui (The Lie Eater), ae well as a short introduction by Ryusei Yokohama (Baku Madarame) and Hayato Sano (Takaomi Kaji). The film opens with a Rubik’s Cube game between two characters on the roof of a building. 

The original Usogui manga was serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Young Jump from 2006 to 2018 and has printed 8.8 million copies in 49 tankobon volumes. The production of its live-action adaptation film was announced back in 2016 as the manga’s 10th-anniversary project.

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. Ryusei Yokohama (Hikari Nonomura / ToQ 4gou in the 2014 Super Sentai TV series Ressha Sentai ToQger) is cast as the protagonist Baku Madarame, alongside Hayato Sano (Yu Ishigami in the Kaguya-sama: Love Is War live-action film series) as his partner Takaomi Kaji.

The Hideo Nakta (the Ring series)-directed film was released in 339 theaters across Japan on February 11, 2022, then made its fifth place debut with 90 million yen (780,000 USD). The film has received mixed-to-negative reviews, ranking only sixth on Filmarks’ first day satisfaction ranking with an average rating of 3.06 based on 483 reviews.

Main cast:

• Baku Madarame: Ryusei Yokohama
• Takaomi Kaji: Yuto Sano
• Ranko Kurama: Mai Shiraishi
• Kiro Mekama: Souta Hongo
• Soichi Kiruma: Kaito Sakurai
• Hikoichi Yakou: Hiroaki Murakami
• Ikki Sadakuni: Shohei Miura

Source: Warner Brothers Japan official YouTube channel

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