Warner Brothers Japan’s official YouTube channel has started streaming the first five minutes of the live-action film adaptation of Toshio Sako’s gambling-themed manga Usogui (The Lie Eater), ae well as a short introduction by Ryusei Yokohama (Baku Madarame) and Hayato Sano (Takaomi Kaji).
The production of its live-action adaptation film was announced back in 2016 as the manga’s 10th-anniversary project.
Its story centers on a high IQ genius gambler, Baku Madarame, who is called Usogui (The Lie Eater), in a head-to-head psychological battle for life and death with top cheaters at Kakerou, a black-ops club that controls Japan’s political and business world.