The official website for Katsuya Matsumura's Dark Love: Rape (Dâku rabu: rape) is online. K.M. Produce K.K. (K.K. Kei Emu Purodyûsu) plans to release the movie theatrically in Japan on March 1st of next year.

The screenplay for Dark Love: Rape was written by Matsumura and Tôgo Gotô, based on the manga series Rape (Reipu) by Shûichi Sakabe. The movie stars (listed order corresponds to order on official website) Dankan, Yû Tejima, Atsuko Miura, Kêsuke, Shun Sugata, Shiraku Tatekawa, Hideo Sakaki, and Hitomi Hayasaka.

Matsumura's previous directing credits include Kirei? - The Terror of Beauty (Ki-re-i?), the All Night Long (Ôru naito rongu) pentalogy - All Night Long (Ôru naito rongu), All Night Long 2 (Ôru naito rongu 2), All Night Long 3: The Final Chapter (Ôru naito rongu 3: saishûshô), All Night Long R (Ôru naito rongu R), and All Night Long: Initial O (Ôru naito rongu: inisharu O) - and Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case (Joshikôsei konkurîto-zume satsujin-jiken) - a controversial movie from 1995 that was based on the same real-life murder case as Gunji Kawasaki's 1997 movie Juvenile Crime (Shônen no hanzai) and Hiromu Nakamura's 2004 movie Concrete (Konkurîto).

Dark Love: Rape official website

Below are two more stills from Dark Love: Rape.

A trailer for Dark Love: Rape has just been added to the official website for the movie.

Dark Love: Rape trailer page