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Ushijima the Loan Shark Part 2's Trailer Streamed
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Masatoshi Yamaguchi is directing the film and collaborating with Masahiro Fukuma for the script. Superfly is also performing the theme song "Live." Ushijima the Loan Shark Part 2 will open in theaters in Japan on May 16.
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Hiromi Sakimoto (far right) return from the previous series and film as Ezaki and the former host company employee Takada.
The cast also Masataka Kubota as Rei Kanzaki (a young man who aims to be the number one host at a bar), and Yūya Yagira as Enuma (a laborer who is also a stalker).
The original Ushijima the Loan Shark manga depicts the human drama in the black market world, as seen through the eyes of the titular loan shark. Ushijima heads Kaukau Finance, an outfit that lends money at an illegal interest rate — "Togo" or 50% every 10 days.
The manga has been running in as well as for 's Angoulême Comics Awards in 2008. The first live-action television series ran from October to December of 2010, and the first film opened on August 25, 2012. The television series' Season 2 is began in January.
[Via: Eigapedia]
