New special video for Takashi Miike’s "For Love’s Sake"

By kevin on April 18, 2012 at 12:23am EDT

Over the past two years, director Takashi Miike has hosted a series of live interview events to help promote upcoming movies. On Wednesday, he hosted one for his own movie, For Love’s Sake at Billboard Live Tokyo in Roppongi. Satoshi Tsumabuki and Takumi Saitoh were in attendance and participated in a frank talk about the film. This new special video featuring Emi Takei singing as her character, Ai Saotome, premiered in the lobby during the event.

The film is based on Ikki Kajiwara and Takumi Nagayasu’s “Ai to Makoto” manga. It’s actually the fourth film adaptation of the series, but the first in 36 years.

Takei’s character, Ai, is the kind-hearted daughter of a wealthy family who falls in love with a dirt poor juvenile delinquent named Makoto Taiga (Tsumabuki). Saitoh plays Iwashimizu, an honor student who’s in love with Ai and persistent about professing it.

The film incorporates action, romance, music, and comedy in seemingly equal measure. During the discussion, Tsumabuki touched upon the difficulty in promoting a movie that doesn’t really fit into a particular genre. Saitoh seemed more confident, suggesting the film is a masterpiece that will resonate with today’s youth.

“For Love’s Sake” will be released by Kadokawa Pictures and Toei in Japan on June 16, 2012.

Source: Cinema Today