A short 'making of' video for Kenta Fukasaku's XX (XX (ekusu kurosu): makyô densetsu) - a.k.a. "X-Cross" - was added to the official website for the movie earlier this week. Toei Company Ltd. is scheduled to release the movie theatrically in Japan on December 1st.

The screenplay for XX was written by Tetsuya Ôishi, based on the novel Sono kêtai wa XX (ekusu kurosu) de by Nobuyuki Jôkô. The movie stars (listed order corresponds to order in third trailer) Nao Matsushita, Ami Suzuki, Shôko Nakagawa, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Kyôji Kamui, Takashi Nishina, Ayuko Iwane, Rikiya Koyama, Nozomu Iwao, Maju Ozawa, and Hiroyuki Ikeuchi.

Here's a synopsis for the mobile manga XX - which is also based on Jôkô's novel - from the website of Production I.G: "'Kagome, Kagome...' A chant echoes in the moonlit night. Madness fills the air. Then a death-cry breaks the still of the night. And the doomed lore handed down in the village crawls out from the oblivion of time once again... ¶ Early summer. Two university students, Shiyori Mizuno and Aiko Hiuke, get off at a shabby bus stop. They're at the Ashikari Village, an isolated hot springs village off the beaten track in the mountains. A place so remote that does not even come out searching on the Internet. The ideal place, Aiko suggested, to heal her friend's broken heart. ¶ Then, Aiko makes an appalling confession. Deeply shocked, Shiyori returns to the inn alone and discovers an unfamiliar mobile phone waiting for her. As the phone rings, she picks it up, just to hear the most spine-chilling words in her life: 'Run! Or your legs will be slashed!'"

XX trailer #3 (downloadable 8.8 MB MOV file)

XX trailer #2 (downloadable 10.2 MB MOV file)

XX official website (w/ 'making of' video)

An English-subtitled promo reel for X-Cross has been added to YouTube. The movie is scheduled to be screened at the Fantasia Festival in Montréal on July 11th.

YouTube: X-Cross English-subtitled promo reel page

X-Cross official website

Fantasia Festival: X-Cross