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The official website for Badboys The Movie , an new upcoming live-action film adaptation of Hiroshi Tanaka's motorcycle gang-themed manga Badboys , released a main trailer and a poster visual today. The clip features the film's theme song "Be brave!" performed by Japanese boy band JO1. The group's youngest member Issei Mamehara also stars in the film as the protagonist, Tsukasa Kiriki. Badboys The Movie Main Trailer Poster Visual JO1 member Junki Kono, who co-wrote the lyrics of the song along with group member Sukai Kinjo, shared the following comment on the film's website : I worked on the lyrics of "Be brave!," the theme song for the movie "Badboys" starring our member Issei Mamehara. As I got to know the story, the main character, Tsukasa Kiriki, who aims to become a "Man" and goes straight to his dream, really resembles Mame (Mamehara), so I wrote the lyrics with a straight...

Long prescribed to a stagnating society, the status quo had its own rulebook torn at the onset of the age of coronavirus. Rupturing ordinariness at the seams, the question always remained: why go back? Why not stumble into the extraordinary, an imaginative domain of endless possibilities and supernatural intrigue? These ideals of returning to what had been became rife for their own rebellion, to forge a future suited for all. For the adolescent, such drastic change could never come at a more disruptive time, forced to make sense of a world, of a body, of mind and soul, being turned upside down. Though there may be little actual rebellion unfolding within Shinichi Fujita's ‘Mayhem Girls', there is plenty to rebel against the film itself, a disappointing yet oddly charming flurry of escapism that poses more questions than it can bare to answer.

Mayhem Girls is screening at New York...