arrival of the Special Forces was filmed in the parking lot of International Stadium Yokohama. Kitamura also chose to work with kinetic camerawork. Wanting to take a different approach than what he had done on Versus, Kitamura wanted to shoot each scene with one shot. Director of Photography Takumi Furuya was able to utilized "run-and-gun" filming due to storyboards. The film's ending was shot on the rooftop of the Shinjuku Hijia Building on May 20, 2001. Kitamura admitted that his interest in adapting the manga into a live-action film was due to the ending, stating, "I made this film because I wanted to shoot that final scene on the rooftop. Everything else was geared toward that moment." Kitamura was moved by the manga's ending and intended to "transcend" the original and impress the author. Hitoshi Ozawa was invited for a single day shoot, however, Ozawa warned Kitamura that he was sporting bandages on his head due to a stunt injury. Kitamura invited him over regardless and retained the bandages on-screen. Four hours were spent applying tattoos for Ozawa's character. Sakaki claimed to have lost 10 kilos during filming. Tetta Sugimoto filmed his scenes in 10 days. Sugimoto purposely dyed his hair red and trimmed it to a mohawk for his role. A steel camera device was produced that would be able to fall with Sugimoto after Sakaki would hit him with a custom bottle. Special effects The crew used triple the wire-action than what was used in Versus in order to display Tenshu's supernatural powers. The film contained 300 visual effect shots, 180 of which were not part of the original manga. These 180 effect shots were used in the Versus scene, which took four months, 20 hours a day to track each shot. Action choreographer Yuji Shimomura wanted to film the Versus scene as if it were a martial arts video game, as well as incorporate aerial combat. Shimomura did storyboards for the Versus scene. Shimomura produced a camera test simulation (with Kitamura's approval) with Tak Sakaguchi and Hideo Sakaki's stunt double. Kitamura gave his feedback on how to improve the fight. Kitamura chose to green screen the Versus scene due to insufficient time to do the set ups that the scene required. Visual effects supervisor Takeshi Shin felt that filming the scene on-set would have restricted the crew due to the amount of wire-action involved and a virtual