If you’re new to the world of Homura Kawamoto’s manga and the films and Netflix series it has inspired, you may need a moment to adjust to your surroundings. Welcome to Hyakkaoh Academy, Japan’s number one elite school for gamblers. Here, everything depends on luck and the ability to outwit the competition. Those who are successful become legends. Those who lose are forced to wear pet tags and perform servile duties for their betters in a system resembling the practice of fagging in English public schools. There is only the briefest of introductions, and nothing in the way of justification, provided at the start of this film, which expects viewers to be familiar with the setting already. It wastes no time in getting on with the action as student president Kirari (Elaiza Ikeda) and brilliant outsider Yumeko (Minami Hamabe) are faced with a new threat: the scheming,...
- 8/20/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
With plenty of history throughout modern times, a live-action version of an anime series or show is nothing new in Japanese cinema which is where Tsutomu Hanabusa‘s version of the gambling series comes from, as a sequel to two seasons of a live-action TV drama. After being on the festival circuit for a while, this now makes its way to American audiences with its premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival.
“Kakegurui” screened at the Fantasia International Film Festival:
Transferring to the elite Hyakkaou Private Academy, new student Yumeko Jabami (Minami Hamabe) is determined to subvert the trope about the school from determining your grades based on how well you perform at the gambling table. While there, she faces opposition from student council president Kirari Momobami (Elaiza Ikeda) who is also dealing with a battle against Amane Murasame (Hio Miyazawa), the priest-like leader of a campus-based cult called The Village,...
“Kakegurui” screened at the Fantasia International Film Festival:
Transferring to the elite Hyakkaou Private Academy, new student Yumeko Jabami (Minami Hamabe) is determined to subvert the trope about the school from determining your grades based on how well you perform at the gambling table. While there, she faces opposition from student council president Kirari Momobami (Elaiza Ikeda) who is also dealing with a battle against Amane Murasame (Hio Miyazawa), the priest-like leader of a campus-based cult called The Village,...
- 8/28/2020
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
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