Later this month, Kishibe Rohan will be bringing his abilities to Paris in the performance titled Rohan au Louvre. The most recent screen adaptation based on the pages of Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan has just released a behind-the-scenes film that is one minute long.
Issey Takahashi reprises his role as Rohan throughout the video, which also follows the rest of the actors as they film on location in Paris and in Japan. The actors and crew are shown in the presence of the Mona Lisa and other famous works of art during a few of the Louvre scenes.
Check out the behind-the-scenes footage below:
One of the episodes that makes up the Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan series is titled Rohan au Louvre - a spin-off of Araki's long-running JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series. One of the key characters in JoJo's fourth volume, Diamond is Unbreakable, is the protagonist Rohan Kishibe. Since the year 2020, the live-action television drama series, which stars Issei Takahashi as the title character Rohan, has been shown on NHK General TV for a total of three seasons.
It has been announced that the full-length movie sequel would be released in Japan on May 26th, 2023. The film was shot on locations in Japan, including Rohan Kishibe's residence, and in Paris, France, including the Pont des Arts, the Avenue des Champs-Elysées, the Arc de Triomphe Etoile, the Alexandre III Bridge, Saint-Louis Island, Place Carrousel, and the Louvre Museum. Filming took place from fall of 2022 to March 2023, done in about 6 months!
About Rohan au Louvre:
As Rohan, a young Japanese manga artist, is drawing, he meets a mysterious, beautiful woman who tells him of a cursed 200-year-old painting. The painting was created using the blackest ink ever known, which came from a 1,000-year-old tree that the painter had cut down without the approval of the Emperor. The painter was executed for this, but the painting was saved from destruction by a curator of the Louvre. A decade later, Rohan visits Paris and asks the museum to unearth the painting from deep within its archives—but he is completely unprepared for the power of the curse he has unleashed.
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