The official website for Yûdai Yamaguchi's live-action Sakigake!! Cromartie High School - The Movie (Sakigake!! Kuromati Kôkô - The Movie) is now partly functional. As was previously reported here on ScreenAnarchy, the movie is based on a manga serial by Eiji Nonaka. It stars Takamasa Suga as Takashi Kamiyama, Mitsuki Koga as Shinjirô Hayashida, Hiroshi Yamamoto as Akira Maeda (and possibly also Akira's mother), Hiroyuki Watanabe as Freddy, Yoshihiro Takayama as Yutaka Takenouchi, Itsuji Itao as Masked Takenouchi, Noboru Kaneko as Takeshi Hokuto, Shinji Takeda as (the voice of) Shin'ichi Mechazawa, Robert (Robâto = Ryûji Akiyama, Hiroyuki Baba, and Hiroshi Yamamoto), Shôichirô Masumoto (who wrote the screenplay for the movie) as Noboru Yamaguchi (and possibly also Gorilla), Kai Atô, Sadayoshi Shimane as Hokuto's lackey, Ken'ichi Endô as Pootan 1, Noboru Takachi as Pootan 2, and Tak Sakaguchi as Ichirô Yamamoto.
Ken'ichi Endô is in a number of other current/upcoming movies, including Kôsuke Suzuki's Oppai seijin [see ScreenAnarchy article here], Takashi Ishii's Flower and Snake 2: Paris/Shizuko (Hana to hebi 2: Pari/Shizuko) [see ScreenAnarchy articles here and there], Masahiro Asao's Deserted Dogs (Suteinu) [see the first, second, and third ScreenAnarchy articles on it], and the omnibus horror movie 'Chô' kowai hanashi the movie: yami no eigasai [see ScreenAnarchy articles here and there]. He previously starred in the Shûdan satsujin kurabu tetralogy: Shûdan satsujin kurabu (2003); Shûdan satsujin kurabu: returns (2003); Shûdan satsujin kurabu: growing (2004); and Shûdan satsujin kurabu: saigo no satsuriku (2004).