7.3
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Drama, Fantasy, Horror • 2025 • 110 min
Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan: At a Confessional (2025)
Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan: At a Confessional (2025)
Overview
A live-action spinoff of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, this film follows manga artist Rohan Kishibe on vacation in Venice, where he is mistaken for a priest and drawn into a mysterious confession involving a curse and a family's darkest secret. The Neutral label fits because the film's signals pull in no strong ideological direction. The family at the center is traditional in structure, and the story treats parental love and its obsessive edge with a horror lens rather than a social argument. No political, religious, LGBTQ, or identity-focused material appears. The international Japanese-Italian production is a natural fit for the Venice setting, with no casting friction. This is a supernatural mystery, content to be exactly that.
Starring Cast
Issei Takahashi • Andrea Bellacicco • Shunsuke Daitô
Where to watch
Prime VideoRating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Not Rated
Political: Not Rated
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
7.3
Overview
A live-action spinoff of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, this film follows manga artist Rohan Kishibe on vacation in Venice, where he is mistaken for a priest and drawn into a mysterious confession involving a curse and a family's darkest secret. The Neutral label fits because the film's signals pull in no strong ideological direction. The family at the center is traditional in structure, and the story treats parental love and its obsessive edge with a horror lens rather than a social argument. No political, religious, LGBTQ, or identity-focused material appears. The international Japanese-Italian production is a natural fit for the Venice setting, with no casting friction. This is a supernatural mystery, content to be exactly that.
Starring Cast
Issei Takahashi • Andrea Bellacicco • Shunsuke Daitô
Where to watch
Prime VideoDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Not Rated
Primary
Political: Not Rated
Web searches across major film sites, reviews, and discussions yield no coverage of political themes, ideological framing, or bias in this supernatural mystery adaptation.
Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: High
The movie features a mix of Japanese leads and European supporting performers suited to its Italian setting, with production involving crews from both regions. Reviews note the international ensemble as refreshing but provide no indication of intentional identity-focused casting or thematic emphasis on critiquing traditional groups.
Secondary
Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: High
The film centers on a traditional nuclear family (wealthy father, supermodel wife, daughter) whose moments of happiness trigger a supernatural curse, with the father attempting to sabotage his adult daughter's marriage out of twisted parental protection; the narrative resolves by enabling the daughter's wedding while using deception to avert the curse's full effect on the family.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low
No identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes appear in the film.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low
The film adapts a supernatural confession story centered on manga artist Rohan Kishibe in Venice, involving a masked man's crime and curse, with no transgender characters or themes depicted.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
Rohan Kishibe, canonically male, is portrayed by male actor Issei Takahashi. Kyoka Izumi, canonically female, is portrayed by female actor Marie Iitoyo. The adaptation of the manga one-shot features no mismatches in named characters' genders.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: High
Rohan Kishibe is canonically Japanese and portrayed by Japanese actor Issei Takahashi. Italian actors including Andrea Bellacicco appear in roles consistent with the Venice setting and story's local characters; no canon character has a mismatched racial portrayal.
Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: Low
Not depicted in the film.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.0
8.6
Critic Ratings
N/A
N/A
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