Live-Action Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Wins Audience Award at Neuchâtel Int'l Fantasic Film Festival

The live-action JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable filmwon the RTS Audience Award at the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF) in Switzerland on Saturday. The festival hostedthe film's world premiere on July 2. Director Takashi Miike and lead actor Kento Yamazaki were present for the screening.

The film will also screen at Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival, which will take place from Thursday, July 13 to August 2. The film will open in Japan on August 4.

The film's title is JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond wa Kudakenai Dai-Ichi-Shō (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter I), although the staff have not yet confirmed additional installments for the series.

Prolific filmmaker Takashi Miike (live-action Terraformars, Ace Attorney, Crows Zero, Yatterman, For Love's Sake, Ichi the Killer) is directing the movie.

The cast includes:

• Kento Yamazaki as Jōsuke Higashikata
  
• Ryunosuke Kamiki as Kōichi Hirose
  
• Nana Komatsu as Yukako Yamagishi
  
• Masaki Okada as Keichō Nijimura
  
• Mackenyu as Okuyasu Nijimura
  
• Takayuki Yamada as Anjūrō "Angelo" Katagiri
  
• Yusuke Iseya as Jōtarō Kūjō

Other cast members include Alisa Mizuki (Doraemon: Nobita no Space Heroes) as Tomoko Higashikata and Jun Kunimura (Attack on Titan, Chihayafuru, The Wind Rises, Ichi the Killer) as Ryōhei Higashikata.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable is the fourth part of Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga. The story is set in Morioh, located in S City in M Prefecture of Japan, and it follows the misadventures of Jōsuke Higashikata and his companions, as they are involved in a series of bizarre incidents in their town.

Araki serialized the fourth part of the manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jumpmagazine from 1992 to 1995. The entire series has a total of more than 100 million copies in print. David Production has been adapting the manga into multiple television anime series, beginning with Part 1 in 2012. The studio's television anime adaptation of Diamond is Unbreakable premiered last April, and Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired in Japan.

Viz Media is releasing the manga in North America, although its releases have not yet reached the fourth part.