Ask me what is high on my list of anticipated films for 2009 and if I don't say Crows Zero II kick the guy standing beside me in the nuts and yell out, 'See! See what happens when you forget?!' Don't matter who they are, if I forget, they pay.

Filming has already started on the sequel to Takashi Miike's awesome adaptation of the Japanese manga. If I'm to believe anything that Google Translate and Babel Fish tell me from the report on the official site the conditions are hot but the cast has plenty of willpower and filming is progressing at a nice clip [ie. the shout potato sufficient of the cast]. Damnit, I really need to learn Japanese. But, what does translate well is the fact that the final battle in the sequel will involve 500 gang members. Oh, bliss!

Haruma Miura [Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge] has been cast as the rival gang leader. Miura plays Tatusya Mito, the leader of Housen Gakuen, the rival school of Genji's Suzuran. RIZE drummer Nobuaki Kaneko is also appearing in the film playing the third-year Housen student Narumi, an original character for the film. Shame, he's gonna get that pretty face of his all messed up by Genji.