JoJo's Bizarre Adventure : Diamond is Unbreakable - Chapitre 1 (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 ダイヤモンドは砕けない 第一章, JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken: Daiyamondo wa Kudakenai Daiisshō) est un film en live-action qui adapte l'histoire de Diamond is Unbreakable, la quatrième partie de la série JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
Ce film a été réalisé par Takashi Miike,[1] et co-produit par Warner Bros. Japan ainsi que Toho.[2] Diamond is Unbreakable a été officiellement annoncé le 28 septembre 2016 et distribué au Japon le 4 août 2017[1] avec la vente en Blu-ray et en DVD sur le marché japonais depuis le 23 mars 2018.
Le film a été distribué en version sous-titré anglais sous forme de coffret Blu-ray par VIZ Media depuis le 11 février 2020.[3]
Par une nuit pluvieuse, un criminel nommé Anjuro Katagiri se fait pourchasser par la police et s'est réfugié dans un immeuble. Alors que la police évacue l'immeuble, l'officier Ryohei Higashikata s'inquiète pour une famille manquante à l'appel. Lorsqu'il appelle cette famille (les Yamashita), on voit que c'est Katagiri qui les a capturé. Celui-ci voit le nom de Ryohei Higashikata sur le téléphone, et il s'enfuit par les toits après avoir poignardé le mari. Katagiri rencontre alors un mystérieux jeune homme tenant un arc et une flèche. Le jeune homme lui tire dessus avant de reprendre la flèche. Voyant que Katagiri a survécu, le jeune homme inconnu le félicite avant de partir. Katagiri est ensuite capturé par la police, mais un étrange pouvoir s'éveille en lui. Alors qu'on l'interroge, Katagiri massacre les policiers et s'enfuit du commissariat.
L'intrigue saute vers le point de vue d'un adolescent nommé Koichi Hirose. Il vient de déménager à Morioh, une ville côtière ordinaire et paisible d'ordinaire. Cependant, une vague de meurtres inexpliqués sème la peur en ville. Alors qu'il part à l'école, deux délinquants s'en prennent à Koichi mais un camarade de classe nommé Josuke Higashikata le sauve. Josuke est d'un naturel paisible mais se met en colère quand on se moque de son pompadour ; en plus, il a un pouvoir mystérieux et semble pouvoir frapper les gens à distance et est capable de restaurer le vélo de Koichi sans explication. Koichi, qui n'a pas d'ami au lycée mis à part une camarade nommée Yukako Yamagishi qui lui colle à la peau, Koichi décide de côtoyer Josuke.
On voit deux jeunes racoler des femmes dans la rue. Ryohei vient et les réprimande. Il parle à l'un des jeunes, Masaya Yoshizawa, qui a quitté son travail. Malgré l'hostilité du jeune homme, Ryohei lui propose son aide avant de partir. Alors que les deux délinquants traînent dans un parc, ils sont attaqué par l'eau de la fontaine. L'eau tue le camarade de Mayasa, Hirata, puis s'en prend à Masaya.
A la fin des classes, Josuke et Koichi assistent à une prise d'otage. C'est Masaya qui a essayé de cambrioler un magasin et a pris une caissière en otage. Masaya insulte la coiffure de Josuke, ce qui met ce dernier en colère. Josuke confronte Masaya et le neutralise tout en sauvant la caissière avec son pouvoir. Le voyou tombe à terre, et c'est alors que Josuke voit une créature faite d'eau ramper hors de la bouche de Masaya. Cette créature, invisible de tous sauf pour Josuke, s'échappe dans les égouts tandis que Katagiri observe la scène.
Ryohei retourne chez lui. Il salue sa fille Tomoko et réprimande son petit fils Josuke pour avoir intervenu imprudemment durant la prison d'otage. Ryohei est intrigué que Masaya ait pu vouloir commettre un crime aussi violent. Dans sa chambre, Ryohei contemple le mur qui est couvert de message de remerciement pour son service en tant que policier, et frappe le mur, frustré qu'un membre de sa ville chérie soit mort.
La même nuit, le jeune homme avec l'arc et la flèche continue de tirer sur des gens pour une raison mystérieuse.
That night, Katagiri meets with the teen who's granted him this power. Dining at a restaurant, Katagiri demonstrates his control over water, and also vows to kill the teenager who "got in his way". Although the teen lets Katagiri roam free, he doesn't reveal anything about himself. Meanwhile, the Higashikata family is having dinner. Although Tomoko is worried about the local crime wave, Ryohei tells her to believe in the good of Morioh's inhabitants. When Ryohei falls asleep, exhausted, Josuke and Tomoko have a discussion about his father. Although Tomoko is still attached to Joseph, Josuke prefers to look up to his grandfather.
The next day, Jotaro has investigated about Anjuro Katagiri, and deduces that his powers are water-based. Worried, he looks at the incoming rain clouds. Meanwhile, Katagiri has followed Josuke home and unleashes his Stand, Aqua Necklace. Tomoko unwittingly drinks the Stand, but Josuke saves her by having his own Stand punch through her, trapping Aqua Necklace in a bottle and still healing his mother. Tomoko then leaves to go to Trattoria Trussardi, a new Italian restaurant. Josuke calls Jotaro for aid and later goes to prepare the bath. However, in Josuke's absence, Aqua Necklace tricks Ryohei into drinking the bottle by changing its color to appear as alcohol. Josuke and Jotaro are too late to save Ryohei, and they can only mourn him for a brief moment before the enemy attacks them again.
Aqua Necklace has opened all the taps of the house and even started to boil water. Despite their powers, the water Stand is too elusive to fight directly. Thus, Josuke secretly swallows a glove and tricks the enemy into entering his mouth, trapping him. Confronting Katagiri, Josuke then traps him forever inside a rock.At the same time, the mysterious teen feels that his ally has been defeated, and prepares for the incoming battle.
Later, Josuke prepares himself for Ryohei's funeral, which prompts Tomoko to recall the unsolved murder of a high school girl and praise her father as a pillar of Morioh's community. During the funeral, Josuke spots the mysterious teen who smiles at him. Suspicious, he and Koichi follow him up to a derelict mansion, the property of the Nijimura family. One new foe, Okuyasu Nijimura, attacks Josuke while the mysterious teen, revealed as the big brother Keicho Nijimura, shoots Koichi with the bow.
Josuke fights Okuyasu, a dangerous enemy whose Stand, The Hand, can erase anything its right hand touches and even teleport objects by erasing the space between them. Nonetheless, Okuyasu is quickly dispatched when he teleports a statue into his face and is knocked out.
Meanwhile, Keicho has dragged the wounded Koichi inside the house. Josuke follows him and confronts him, but is then suddenly attacked. While Josuke avoids the attack, the returning Okuyasu gets his whole face pierced. Josuke retreats while Keicho disappears further inside his mansion.Josuke heals Okuyasu, who realizes the nobility of his foe. In gratitude for healing him, Okuyasu uses his power to teleport Koichi, allowing Josuke to save him. Nonetheless, Okuyasu steps aside for the remainder of the battle.
Josuke and Koichi then explore the mansion and are attacked by a whole army of miniature soldiers, helicopters, and tanks, which are collectively Keicho's Stand, Bad Company. While Josuke is slowly but surely overwhelmed by the onslaught of attacks, Keicho expresses his interest for Koichi who's survived the arrow and must have had gained a Stand. Unfortunately, his powers presents itself as a mere big egg. Disappointed, Keicho moves in to finish off both but the egg hatches, revealing the real Stand, which is still powerless to stop Keicho. Nonetheless, the distraction has allowed Josuke to repair some missiles which he throws back at Keicho, defeating him.
Wanting to destroy the Bow and Arrow, Josuke and Koichi explore the attic of the mansion, only to discover a chained monster. Reappearing with the bow, Keicho explains that the monster is his own father, transformed into an immortal abomination, and that he seeks a way to grant his father death. Nonetheless, Josuke repairs the pieces of a photograph of the Nijimura family, which the monster takes and holds dearly, demonstrating that a lingering trace of Keicho's father remains.
Stupefied, Keicho is speechless when Josuke offers his help to find a way of healing his father. But even with Okuyasu's insistence, he refuses to hand the Bow and Arrow, considering he's gone too far to step down.
Suddenly, a new foe appears. A miniature tank leaps through the window and attacks Okuyasu. Keicho jumps to throw his brother aside and dies when the tank explodes.Okuyasu mourns his brother, and Josuke meets again with Jotaro, swearing to continue his grandfather's work of protecting the town. Josuke, Koichi and Okuyasu then become friends and comrade in arms.
The POV suddenly switches to a house, somewhere in Morioh. The camera then pans over several objets: a cupboard full of 3rd place trophies, bottled nails, and a severed hand holding the Arrow.
Les rumeurs initiales en juillet 2016 qu'une adaptation cinématographique de Stardust Crusaders était en production ont commencé à circuler mais il n'y a une aucune confirmation officielle pour valider l'authenticité des revendications. Finalement, le 28 septembre 2016, lors d'un évènement pour promouvoir JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, l'existence d'une adaptation de Diamond is Unbreakable a été révélée au public. Le producteur de Tokyo Broadcasting System Takashi Hirano a expliqué que l'équipe avait décidé d'adapter l'intrigue de la quatrième partie du manga car elle met en scène un protagoniste japonais dans un cadre japonais. Il a ensuite précisé que la nature cosmopolite du manga offre une chance au cinéma japonais de s'étendre à travers le monde, en incluant des acteurs d'une partie particulière (comme les personnages anglais ou italiens) qui seraient joués par des acteurs d'une nationalité appropriée.[4]
En ce qui concerne le sous-titre du film, " Chapitre I", Hirano a expliqué qu'en raison de la complexité de l'intrigue et des personnages de la partie 4, il serait impossible d'adapter l'intégralité de la partie en un film de deux heures. Hirano a ensuite déclaré que si le film était un succès commercial, il aimerait adapter le reste de la quatrième partie en plusieurs films. Le réalisateur Takashi Miike a choisi la ville espagnole de Sitges comme lieu de tournage après avoir étudié les différentes possibilités à travers le monde entier. Il a reconnu que le cadre du manga original est vaguement basé sur la ville japonaise réelle de Sendai, mais a déterminé que Sitges était la ville qui correspondait le mieux au cadre fictif de Morioh.[4]
Selon la préface de Takashii Miike pour le fanbook français "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure : le diamant incassable du manga", Araki rendu visite une fois au plateaux de production, aurait observé les acteurs et les aurait encouragés. Araki aurait également dit à Takashi Miike que "chaque film appartient au réalisateur" et qu'il lui donnait sa permission pour ignorer des éléments du manga original. Pendant le montage, Miike aurait demandé à Araki de revoir le film à plusieurs reprises et lui a également demandé de superviser le design, les couleurs et les mouvements des Stands.[5]
Le film a été présenté en avant-première lors du Festival international du film fantastique de Neuchâtel 2017 où il a remporté le prix du public RTS.[6].
Le 4 août 2017, il est sorti sur 325 écrans à l'échelle nationale au Japon, et a débuté avec une recette de 166 millions de yens. Son week-end d'ouverture a attiré 164 496 personnes et a finalement rapporté 226,316 millions de yens.[7]
Selon Takashi Miike, Araki lui a personnellement dit que "C'est un film merveilleux, il est très intéressant à regarder". Miike soupçonne également qu'Araki n'a pas aimé certains détails mais qu'il aurait préféré ne pas en parler.[5]
First of all, as someone who's Japanese, I want to address my sincere thanks to Mister Frederico Anzalone for taking on this challenge. Araki-sensei's series, "JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure" is a miraculous work of art that has managed to push past society's typical view of manga as a "niche subculture" and achieve the honor of being described as "high art". That said, I’ll let the rest of this book explain what that means exactly. For now, I'd like to focus more on the author of this work, Hirohiko Araki, who I was able to meet during the production of the live-action adaptation.
THE MEETING
Up until now, Araki-sensei would always refuse live movie adaptations for his manga, but this time he was kind enough to allow me to carry out this project. The first task was to hold a meeting to discuss the specifics behind the film's script. Only Araki-sensei's editor and the very tense-looking film producer were in the room at first, but then Araki-Sensei suddenly appeared with a big innocent smile, "Nice to meet you, I am Hirohiko Araki." His voice was soft and he spoke with a certain kindness. He wasn’t trying to impose himself. On the contrary, I could feel his genuine modesty. "JoJo is the celebration of mankind's greatness." His message was a simple but deep one.
DURING THE SHOOTING
Accompanied by his friendly and radiant wife, Araki-Sensei arrived at the set with the same undying smile. He tried to cheer up the young intimidated actors and thoroughly examined how everyone played their roles. Then he left to continue his ongoing work of drawing JoJo. "Every film belongs to its director. Feel free to destroy the original universe if you need to." His words made me shiver.
THE MONTAGE AND ARTISTIC CREATION
I asked Araki-Sensei several times to watch the movie during the editing phase in order to get his honest opinion. He ended up giving me some useful advice from his own perspective. I also asked him to supervise the Stands, particularly their designs, colors, and movements, as they're just as much characters in the movie as their Users. Outside the film's realism and the rhythm of the actors, Araki-Sensei was particularly interested in the way these elements were expressed, as well as the various shades of colors used. His remarks were always insightful and yet, unique. "It really is fascinating to be behind-the-scenes for the making of a film." His innocent smile really left a mark on me.
AT THE PREVIEW
We had reached the end of the preview screening; the credits rolled and the room illuminated. With a heavy heart, I wondered what would be the audience's reaction. I'm a pretty paranoid director, so this moment is always the most terrifying for me.
This is when Araki-sensei addressed me a radiant smile, "It was a wonderful movie, it was really interesting to watch." We toasted and drank wine. I had a feeling he was displeased with certain details, but he never told me them. He had an unconditional kindness and expressed great respect for the work of the team and actors.
"To us! I look forward to making a new movie together!" His beautiful sincere words validated the outcome of our collaboration. This unwavering author knew how to celebrate other's achievements. He himself really was the incarnation of the JoJo universe.
Now then, it’s your turn to discover the beautiful world of Hirohiko Araki!
Movie Roadshow Promo
Movie Poster
Initial Movie Poster
Movie Cast
Kento Yamazaki as Josuke
Yūsuke Iseya as Jotaro
Ryunosuke Kamiki as Koichi
Nana Komatsu as Yukako
Mackenyu as Okuyasu
Masaki Okada as Keicho
Takayuki Yamada as Anjuro "Angelo" Katagiri
Crazy Diamond Model
Logo
Nijimura Household
Bad Company
Aqua Necklace
Storyboard
Storyboard
Special Edition home release with clear slipcover
Blu-ray home release
DVD home release
US Blu-ray home release
Australian DVD home release
Australian DVD home release, reverse
Australian DVD home release, disc
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