Four new Cars 2 characters + three Japanese posters

The Cars 2 character rollout just shifted into high gear with the debut of four new Japanese characters from the movie (with short bios) plus three stylish Japan-themed posters.

As a professional Sumo wrestler at an arena in Tokyo, Japan, Kingpin Nobunaga is a gold-painted micro van who fights his fiercest matches when he’s wearing his lucky purple mawashi.

Okuni is a micro car Kabuki dancer who dons the traditional white-painted face and an exquisite colorful kimono for her performances at the Kabuki theater in Tokyo, Japan.

Pinion Tanaka is a gold-painted micro van and a professional Sumo wrestler from Tokyo, Japan, who’s always a menacing sight in the ring in his signature teal mawashi.

A master in the art of sculpting the serene zen rock garden at the Tokyo museum, Zen Master wears his old woven reed hat and uses his antique wood rake to create mesmerizing patterns in the garden’s sand.

Of this set of retro posters, the Mary Blair-esque one at right is my pick, though the other two look most authentically Japanese. (Then again, I'm not Japanese, so what do I know?)