It has been revealed that there is a new 'Odoru Daisousasen' movie in the works! Although this news is exciting, it comes with some bittersweet news as well. The popular series that stars Oda Yuji is said to come to a end with this new movie currently titled, 'Odoru Daisousasen THE FINAL'. The production crew has already began planning an 'Odoru Festival' to hype up the release of the final installment in September 2012. Oda, who has starred in this long running series for 15 years, commented on his anticipation by stating, "I will work hard to show the culmination of everything."

The 'Odoru' series started in 1997 as a renzoku drama series and has brought excitement to many fans since then. The release of its second movie in 2003 made a total of 173.5 billion yen making it the record holder for highest sales by a live-action Japanese film. Movie producer, Kameyama Chihiro commented, "This will be the final installment of all of the dramas, movies and spin-off series".

When the series started Oda was 29 years old, now he's 44. Kameyama explained that, "After 15 years I wanted to break it off," and also revealing that after discussing it over with the main cast they came up with the plan to "bring back criminals from the past in the third movie and depict an internal story before finishing the series". Along with familiar faces Fukatsu Eri and�Yanagiba Toshiro, newly introduced characters from the last film, Oguri Shun and Uchida Yuki will make a come back in the final installment.

As for the story, Kameyama explained, "There will be an incident that will serve as a fatal blow to the police force. It will depict Aoshima's actions that are surrounded by his beliefs, even if it means giving up his police handbook. The story will enforce the idea that the power that moves the police force is the people at the crime scene".

Shooting will begin in the middle of January and is expected to finish in April of 2012. Kameyama commented, "I want to finish Aoshima and Sumire's love story as well" as well as "I want to use many media formats to make this more of a festival". In order to make the September 2012 release more festive, Kameyama is coming up with more projects to hype the release.

Oda commented, "I"m a bit sad to hear that this will be the last of it all, but I will work hard to show off the culmination of everything." The cast and the production staff are working together to make this upcoming 'Odoru' movie suitable for a finale.

In the meantime, take a look at these photo for a flashback of the series!

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