The official accounts and website for the upcoming live-action movie adaptation of Hiromasa Okujima’s Babanbabanban Vampire comedy manga series released a main trailer and visual today on December 12.The trailer introduces the film’s theme song “IIyu Dana 2025 imase x mabanua MIX” by singer-songwriter imase for the first time.
Babanbabanban Vampire Live-Action Movie Main Trailer
Main visual
“Iiyu dana,” literally meaning “This hot water is so good,” was originally performed by Japanese chorus group Duke Aces in 1966. The song gained even wider recognition when a cover version by the comedy group The Drifters used it for decades as the ending to their own television shows.Imase covers the Showa-era classic with a relaxed and comfortable rhythmic arrangement. “When this song is played at the end roll of this film, I believe it will give you such a comfortable feeling as if you are in a really warm public bath while taking a breather,” said imase. “I would be very happy if you could listen to this song along with the film.”
imase artist photo
The Shinji Hamasaki-directed adaptation will open in Japan on February 14, 2025.Ryo Yoshizawa (Sougo Okita in the Gintama live-action films) is cast as 450-year-old vampire Ranmaru Mori, Rihito Itagaki (Norman in THE PROMISED NEVERLAND live-action film) as Rihito Tatsuno, whom Ranmaru is after for his blood, and Nanoka Hara (Suzume Iwato in Suzume) as Rihito’s first love, Aoi Shinozuka.The original manga, whose genre is categorized as “BL (Bloody Love-Comedy),” is serialized in Akita Shoten’s Bessatsu Shonen Champion. The story centers on Ranmaru Mori, a live-in part-timer at a long-established public bathhouse, whose true identity is a 450-year-old vampire. He is in search of the ultimate taste, “the blood of an 18-year-old virgin,” and continues to protect the virginity of the only son of the bathhouse, 15-year-old Rihito. However, when Rihito reaches puberty, he falls in love at first sight with a girl in the same class! Ranmaru’s desperate plan to stop him from losing his virginity begins…!As previously reported, the manga’s TV anime adaptation is also set to premiere in Japan on January 11, 2025.
Sources: “Babanbabanban Vampire” live-action movie official website / X (formerly Twitter) ©2025 “Babanbabanban Vampire” Production Committee © Hiromasa Okujima (Akita Shoten) 2022
