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Live-Action 'HiGH&LOW The Worst' Crossover Gets Sequel Film
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The official website for the HiGH&LOW EXILE TRIBE live event revealed on Tuesday that the series will get a live-action sequel film that will premiere in early fall 2022. The website streamed a trailer:
The film will feature a returning cast.
Kei Watanabe, and Hiranuma are writing the screenplay.
6 from HiGH&LOW THE WORST, the sequel Masato Yano all reprise their roles from the film as the characters Fujio Hanaoka, Seiji Kirihara, Shinya Orochi, Masaya Orochi, Madoka Ishii, and Arata Maekawa, respectively. The story begins with these friends digging up a time capsule they buried at a nearby park 10 years ago.
Hiroshi Takahashi himself, Hiranuma, Shōichirō Masumoto, Kei Watanabe, and Kamijō. The series had six episodes.
The HiGH&LOW THE WORST film opened in Japan in October 2019. The movie centers on a conflict between the students of Hōsen Academy from Crows and Worst, and the students of Oya High School from HiGH&LOW. Hōsen Academy is often called a "pack of killers," who are all bald except for their leader. Oya High School are one of five in the "SWORD" area where delinquents gather. In the film, the uneasy peace maintained by Hōsen Academy's new generation crumbles, with many gangs now seeking supremacy over one another in a new age of conflict. Ameno launched HiGH&LOW THE WORST - Hōsen Gakuen Nisshi (Hōsen Academy Log), a manga ended it in October 2020.
Takahashi's Crows manga ran for 26 volumes, and inspired a two-episode anime released both Crows Zero and Crows Zero II in the United Kingdom.
Takahashi began Worst as a continuation of his earlier Crows series in 2001, and Worst Gaiden: Guriko (Worst Side Story: Guriko) that launched in January 2019.
The HiGH&LOW live-action entertainment project, launched by Japanese supergroup Exile Tribe, began as a 10-episode drama series titled HiGH&LOW: The Story of S.W.O.R.D. that premiered on television and Hulu in Japan in October 2015. A second drama series titled HiGH&LOW Season 2 ran from April to June 2016. The Road to HiGH&LOW film premiered in theaters in May 2016. A second film titled HiGH&LOW The Movie premiered in theaters in July 2016, followed by the HiGH&LOW The Red Rain film, which opened in Japan in October 2016. A series of live performances titled HiGH&LOW The Live ran from July through October 2016 across Japan. HiGH&LOW The Movie 2: End of Sky opened in theaters in August 2017. The franchise's "final chapter" film, titled HiGH&LOW The Movie 3: Final Mission, opened in November 2017.
inspired a series of Flash anime.
Sources: HiGH&LOW The Worst franchise's website, Comic Natalie
