Bad Boys Motorcycle Gang Manga Gets Live-Action Film

posted on 2010-05-17 03:00 EDT

Hiroshi Tanaka's story about delinquents already inspired 5-part video anime

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A live-action film adaptation of Hiroshi Tanaka's Bad Boys motorcycle gang manga has been green-lit for release in Japan at the beginning of next year. Takashi Kubota, the director of the film Yesterdays and Mr. Children's "Hibiki" music video, will begin shooting the Bad Boys film on location in Hiroshima in the middle of next month. (When the film is completed, Hiroshima will get advance screenings next January, before the rest of the country.)
The story follows Tsukasa, a naive son who rebels against his rich parents by joining a motorcycle gang called the Paradise Butterflies. Tsukasa and his friends (Yōji, Hisao, and Eiji) try to be the most powerful gang on the streets of Hiroshima.
The original manga ran in Shonen Gahosha's Young King magazine from 1988 to 1996, and 40 million copies of its 22 compiled book volumes have been published. A sequel manga, Bad Boys Glare, also ran in the same magazine from 1996 to 2003. Toei Animation and directors Osamu Sekita (Cross Game, Ichigo 100%) and Takeshi Yamaguchi (Happy Lesson, Slayers Next) adapted the manga into a five-part original video anime series from 1993 to 1998.
The main cast of the film will be announced on the official website . The website is already recruiting supporting cast members (gang members, police officers, children, okonomiyaki shop workers, and gang members' mothers) and extras.
Sources: Comic Natalie, Oricon

Live-Action Gantz Films to Be Screened in Singapore

posted on 2010-05-13 21:00 EDT

Inquiries come in from 13 other global regions; 500,000-yen suits made for stars

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The Sports Hochi newspaper reports on Friday that the decision has already been made to screen the live-action film versions of Hiroya Oku's Gantz manga in Singapore — despite the fact that the two films have not been previewed or even completed. Over 45 companies from 13 countries and regions have also made inquiries about acquiring the distribution rights.
The newspaper attributes the worldwide interest in the films to the original science-fiction action manga's popularity in America, France, and other Western countries. The films' two stars, Kazunari Ninomiya (Tekkonkinkreet, Letters from Iwo Jima) of the Arashi musical group and award-winning actor Ken'ichi Matsuyama (Death Note, Detroit Metal City, NANA, The Legend of Kamui), have also found some success overseas. Shinsuke Sato (The Princess Blade, Suna-dokei, Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror) is directing the films. The first film will open in Japan in the beginning of 2011, and the second film will open in the spring.
The production company NTV is showing 4 minutes of the films' promotional footage at this week's Film Market in Cannes, France. (The city is also hosting the Cannes Film Festival competition at the same time.)
In addition to Ninomiya and Matsuyama, Takayuki Yamada (Train Man, Crows Zero, H2: Kimi to Ita Hibi) is also starring in the films as "the mysterious man Shigeta." The two main stars each have 10 of the 500,000-yen (about US$5,400) rubber "Gantz Suits," which they wear when fighting in the films' story.
The story follows a young Tokyo college student who is reanimated after a deadly subway accident. Kei Kurono (Ninomiya) and his friend Masaru Kato (Matsuyama) go on violent, seemingly endless missions at the behest of an unseen host.
Dark Horse Comics will publish the 10th volume of the original manga in North America next month. ADV Films released Gonzo's television anime adaptation of the manga.
Sources: Sports Hochi, NTV News 24

My Name is Noda Manga Gets Live-Action TV Mini-Series

posted on 2010-05-11 14:30 EDT

Aya Tsuge's story of female college student's simple life in Tokyo

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The Japanese publisher Kodansha has announced on Monday that Aya Tsuge's My Name is Noda. (Noda to Mōshimasu.) manga is being adapted into a live-action television mini-series next month. The story follows the "wonderfully simple life" of a female college student named Noda. Noda goes through most days with jeans and sweatshirts and with no makeup as a freshman studying Russian literature in the fictional Tokyo Heisei University.
The three five-minute episodes will air on the public broadcaster NHK's 1seg 2 digital channel on Saturday afternoons from June 5 to June 19. The original manga runs in Kodansha's Kiss and Kiss Plus women's manga magazines.

Hotaru no Hikari Manga Gets 2nd Live-Action TV Series

posted on 2010-05-09 23:35 EDT

Oblivion Island's Haruka Ayase to return to play titular role in women's romance

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The second live-action television series based on Satoru Hiura's Hotaru no Hikari women's romance manga will premiere in July. Haruka Ayase (Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror's Haruka, Crying Out Love in the Center of the World's Aya) will reprise her role as Hotaru, a 27-year-old office lady who would rather sit around lazily at home than pursue romance. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Hotaru ends up living in the same house as her clean-freak boss, and she soon begins to develop a relationship with one of her younger coworkers. Naohito Fujiki (20th Century Boys' Chōno, GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka's Ryuji Saejima) will also return to the series as Seiichi Takano, Hotaru's boss. The theme of the second series will be the happiness of the transformed heroine as Hotaru considers marriage.
The manga ran in Kodansha's Kiss magazine from 2004 to 2009, and 15 book volumes of the manga have been published.
The Southern California station United Television Broadcasting (UTB) aired the first 2007 television series last year.
Source: Sports Hochi via Tokyograph

Hammer Session! Con Artist Manga Gets Live-Action Show

posted on 2010-05-09 18:12 EDT

Absolute Boyfriend's Hayami stars as fugitive-turned-teacher with Arrietty's Shida

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A live-action television series adaptation of Yamato Koganemaru and Namoshiro Tanahashi's Hammer Session! con artist manga will premiere on Japan's TBS network this July. The manga follows a genius con artist named Yū who escapes from a prison transport vehicle during an accident. Yū goes into hiding and assumes the fake identity of Gorō Hachisuka, a junior high school instructor who specializes in a shocking form of teaching known as a "hammer session." The television version will change the junior high school setting into a high school one.
25-year-old actor Mokomichi Hayami will play the con-artist-turned-teacher after his starring roles in the live-action television adaptations of Gokusen and Absolute Boyfriend. 17-year-old actress Mirai Shida and 16-year-old actor Jingi Irie will be playing two of the students. Shida starred in the television version of the Seigi no Mikata shōjo manga, and she will be playing the title role in Studio Ghibli's Karigurashi no Arrietty film this July. Irie will play another high school student role this July in Watashi no Yasashikunai Sempai, first live-action film from Kyōran Kazoku Nikki author Akira and director Yutaka Yamamoto (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Lucky Star, Kannagi).
Hammer Session! ran in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine from 2006 to 2009, and 11 book volumes have been compiled.
Source: Sankei Sports

Winter Sonata DVDs Add Unaired Scenes, Live-Action End

posted on 2010-04-28 07:00 EDT

Uncut versions of anime episodes with finale filmed by original Korean stars

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The Japanese media distributor Avex has announced that it will ship the two "no-cut" DVD boxes for Winter Sonata anime on August 25 and September 22. The boxes will contain the uncut, complete versions of the anime episodes with unaired scenes. It will also include the live-action finale that will air at the end of the 26th and final anime episode on May 1. Yong Joon Bae and Ji Woo Choi, the stars of the 2002 live-action Korean television drama that inspired the anime, filmed the new live-action footage which cover a part of the story that was not in original Korean drama.
The first DVD box will contain the "episode 0" special and the first 13 episodes along with a making-of video, candid shots, and a poster. The second DVD box will contain the last 13 episodes with a making-of video for the ending scene.

Live-Action Maria-Sama ga Miteru Main Cast Presented

posted on 2010-04-26 19:42 EDT

Eiga.com, Cinema Topics Online, Oricon, and other Japanese film news sources have posted several photographs from the Monday press conference for the live-action film adaptation of Oyuki Konno's Maria Watches Over Us (Maria-sama ga Miteru) light novels. In the Oricon group photograph from the conference, the eight main cast members are from left to right: Alice Hirose (Tsutako Takeshima), Nana Akiyama (Eriko Torii), Kaoru Hirata (Youko Mizuno), Haru (Sachiko Ogasawara), Honoka Miki (Yumi Fukuzawa), Karen Takizawa (Sei Satou), Rikako Sakata (Rei Hasekura), and Hitomi Miyake (Yoshino Shimazu).
As announced earlier this month, Love Berry magazine model Honoka Miki will play Yumi, the naive first-year student at the Lillian School For Girls. Seventeen magazine model Haru will play Sachiko, the second-year student who chooses Yumi as her "soeur" or "little sister."
The film will open in Japan this fall. Shueisha has published 5.4 million copies of the original light novels, which follow the personal relationships within the student body of Lillian Girls' Academy. In addition to a manga adaptation, the light novels have inspired four anime seasons.

Live-Action Beck Film's 2nd Teaser Streamed

posted on 2010-04-24 16:06 EDT

Film based on Harold Sakuishi's rock-and-roll manga to open in September

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The official website for Yukihiko Tsutsumi's live-action film adaptation of Harold Sakuishi's Beck rock-and-roll manga has begun streaming a second 45-second teaser trailer on Friday. The film is slated to open on September 4.
Hiro Mizushima, the star of the manga-based Absolute Boyfriend, Hana Zakari no Kimitachi e: Ikemen Paradise, and Lovely Complex projects, plays the charismatic guitarist and band leader Ryusuke Minami, while Takeru Satoh (Princess Princess D, Kamen Rider Den-O, Rookies) plays the ordinary high school boy Koyuki. After a chance encounter between these two, Koyuki joins Minami's five-person rock band, Beck, on its rise to stardom.
Rounding out the band's roster are Kenta Kiritani (Crows Zero, Rookies) as the rapper Chiba, Aoi Nakamura (Shinigami no Ballad, Q.E.D., Koizora) as the drummer Yuji Sakurai, and Osamu Mukai (Honey and Clover, Nodame Cantabile, Monochrome Factor, Mei-chan no Shitsuji) as the bass guitarist Taira.




[Via Nippon Cinema]

Yatterman's Miike to Helm Live-Action Nintama Rantaro

posted on 2010-04-23 18:17 EDT

Remake of historical comedy TV anime about kid ninja (Seishirō Katō)

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Takashi Miike, the one-time cult director who has entered the Japanese mainstream with his live-action Yatterman and Crows Zero films, will direct a live-action film adaptation of the long-running Nintama Rantaro ninja comedy anime series. 8-year-old actor Seishirō Katō will appear in his first lead role as a ninja apprentice. The release date of the film has yet to be announced.
The anime is based on Soubee Amako's Rakudai Ninja Rantarō ninja gag manga (Asahi Comics) about the adventures of Rantarō and other ninja apprentices at an elite ninjutsu academy. The story is set in Japan during the tumultuous Sengoku Jidai (Era of the Warring States). As first-graders, Rantarō and his ninja-in-training friends are called "Nintama" — a contraction of the words "ninja" and "tamago" ("egg").
The television anime adaptation premiered in 1993, and there was already an animated film made in 1996.
Source: Sports Nippon

A Distant Neighborhood, Wonderful World Trailers Posted

posted on 2010-04-20 09:30 EDT

Quartier Lointain adapts Taniguchi's manga; Daisuke Namikawa directs 1st film

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The German website for the European live-action adaptation of Jiro Taniguchi's Eisner-nominated manga Harukana Machi e (A Distant Neighborhood) is streaming a two-minute trailer for the film.
The original manga deals with a 48-year-old salaryman who returns to the town he grew up in, and is transported back in time to his youth. Fanfare and Ponent Mon published the manga in the United States. The setting of the manga is Kurayoshi, a town in Tottori prefecture that is about five hours from Tokyo by train, but the film is set in 1968 Paris. (The film is a production of Belgium, Luxembourg, France, and Germany.) Sam Garbarski, whose 2007 film Irina Palm was nominated for the grand prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, directed the movie. The film, titled Quartier Lointain in French and Vertraute Fremde (Familiar Strangers) in German, has already been shown at the Cannes Film Festival, and will open in Germany on May 20.
The YouTube website is currently hosting a 148-second official trailer for voice actor Daisuke Namikawa's directorial debut film, Wonderful World. Mamoru Miyano stars with fellow voice actors Yuka Hirata, Showtaro Morikubo, Tomokazu Sugita, Yuko Kaida, Tsuyoshi Koyama, Tomokazu Seki, Miki Nagasawa, Saiga Mitsuki, Anri Katsu, Fuyuka Oura, Yurie Kobori, Rikiya Koyama, Keiji Fujiwara, Kouichi Yamadera, Kenji Utsumi, and Namikawa himself. Fashion model and actress Ayumi Uehara plays the main female role alongside Miyano. (Japanese entertainment figures Hiroshi, Yumehito of the visual-kei band Ayabie, and Kajita Mafia also star.)
The film's story poses the possibility that all of humanity, without exception, live in two worlds of existence: the real world and a second world known as "Hem." Humans live their lives in Hem when they sleep in the real world. Hidden in each person is another life of which he or she has no recollection of, except for nightmares which are soon forgotten upon waking up. However, there a few rare individuals who are aware of the existence of Hem and the curious consequences it has on the real world.
The film will open in Japan on June 19, after a special June 12 event.
[Via About.com, Temple Knights]

Funimation Adds Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl Film (Updated)

posted on 2010-04-14 14:00 EDT

Live-action horror comedy from Tokyo Gore Police director

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The North American distributor Funimation has announced on Wednesday that it acquired the live-action horror comedy film Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl from Eleven Arts Entertainment. Naoyuki Tomomatsu and Yoshihiro Nishimura directed this film, and Nishimura had previously directed Tokyo Gore Police and worked on The Machine Girl and Robogeisha. Funimation summarizes the story:

Valentine's Day turns twisted for Mizushima after the vampire schoolgirl Monami gives him a chocolate laced with vampire blood.  One bite of the delicious sweet infects him with immortality. This does not sit well with Mizushima's jealous girlfriend Keiko. She wants him all to herself.  A bloody battle between the two women ends with Keiko falling to her death.  To her luck, Keiko's mad scientist father reanimates her into an undead Frankenstein girl.  Now on a level playing field, the undead damsels fight for the heart of Mizushima.

Funimation will release this film on DVD and Blu-ray this October. The film has already been screened at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, the Hong Kong International Film Festival, and the 2009 NY Asian Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award. It will be screened next at the Mayfair Theatre in Ontario, Canada from Wednesday through Friday. It will then run at the The Nashville Independent Film Festival on April 20.
Update: The Mayfair Theatre is in Ottawa, a city in Ontario, Canada. One of the film's two directors is Yoshihiro Nishimura, not Yoshihiro Tomomatsu. Nishimura directed Tokyo Gore Police without Naoyuki Tomomatsu. Thanks, zindryr.

Kyonyū Dragon Manga Gets Live-Action Movie Green-Lit

posted on 2010-04-14 06:45 EDT

The Big Tits Dragon action story by Reiko the Zombie Shop's Rei Mikamoto

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A live-action movie adaptation of Rei Mikamoto's Kyonyū Dragon (The Big Tits Dragon) zombie action manga has been green-lit. Mikamoto is best known for creating the Chimamire Sukeban Chainsaw and Zombie-ya Reiko (Reiko the Zombie Shop) manga; Dark Horse Comics published the first six volumes of the latter title in North America. The Kyonyū Dragon: Onsen Zombies vs. Stripper 5 film will open on May 15 at Tokyo's Cinemart Roppongi theater, followed by a 2-disc DVD release from Albatross on August 4.
The main character of the movie is Rena (Sora Aoi), a stripper who has returned to Japan from Mexico. The story follows a battle between five strippers and a zombie army at a countryside strip club.
Takao Nakano wrote and directed the Kyonyū Dragon film. The original manga ran in Kodansha's defunct Young Magazine Uppers magazine in 2004, and both Kodansha and Bunkasha have published a one-volume book compilation in various formats. Mikamoto's Zombie-ya Reiko was adapted into a three-part live-action video series in 2004.
Source: Comic Natalie

Hagane no Onna Women's Manga Gets Live-Action TV Show

posted on 2010-04-12 23:57 EDT

Nodame, Bloody Monday's Michiko Kichise stars as teacher of troublemaking class

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35-year-old actress Michiko Kichise (Nodame Cantabile, Bloody Monday) will have her first television lead role with the live-action adaptation of Kahoru Fukaya's Hagane no Onna (She's a Steely Woman!) manga. The television series will premiere in Japan on May 21 at 11:15 p.m. Kichise will play Ineko Haga, a woman with no boyfriend, money, or work. Haga, who is nicknamed "Hagane" ("Steel"), becomes the teacher of a notoriously troublesome fourth-grade class; she follows a long string of teachers who were hired for the class, only to quit in frustration. Between the disrespectful students and the overly obsessive parents, "Hagane" must live up to her nickname to survive the job.
The manga has been running in Shueisha's You manga magazine for women since 2007, and the sixth compiled book volume is shipping this month.
Source: Sports Nippon

Kimi wa Pet/Tramps Like Us Manga Gets Korean Film

posted on 2010-04-06 10:30 EDT

Baby & Me's Jang Geun-suk to star; manga already made into live-action in Japan

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Korean actor Jang Geun-suk will star in a live-action film adaptation of Yayoi Ogawa's Kimi wa Pet romantic comedy manga, and the film is slated for release in South Korea in the later half of the year. In the manga, Sumire Iwaya is a career woman who was just demoted by her boss and dumped by her fiance for his pregnant mistress. Depressed, she encounters a homeless boy on the street and facetiously offers to take him home as a pet. However, the boy surprises Sumire by agreeing to the proposition. Jang will play the "pet boy."

Tokyopop published the original manga under the name Tramps Like Us in North America. The manga was already adapted into a live-action television series in Japan in 2003. Jang had previously starred in a Korean live-action film version of Marimo Ragawa's Baby & Me (Akachan to Boku) slice-of-life manga.

Source: Innolife

Voltron's Live-Action Film Plans Rebooted

posted on 2010-04-05 23:44 EDT

Losers' Sylvain White asked about live-action Robotech, but no green light

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Corona Coming Attractions reports that both of the scripts written for the Voltron live-action movie have been scrapped, putting the movie's production in "reboot" mode. Both Justin Marks' script and Jeff Davis' rewrite will not be used for shooting the movie. In addition, Max Makowski will no longer be directing the project.

In July, Atlas Entertainment's Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, and Steve Alexander acquired the live-action film rights to the Voltron animated series from World Event Productions (WEP) with Kickstart Entertainment's Jason Netter. WEP is, however, still working closely with Atlas Entertainment on the movie.

WEP adapted the 1984-1985 television series from two Toei Animation robot anime: King of Beasts Golion (pictured at right) and Armored Fleet Dairugger XV. Both Golion and the first Voltron story centered on young pilots who fight against an empire of alien conquerors — with the help of five mechanized lions that combine to form a robot.

It was also revealed that the new working title on the recently announced Voltron animated series to air on Nicktoons is Voltron Force. WEP is also hoping to release a major-platform Voltron video game, and a Voltron OVA in the style of The Animatrix and Batman: Gotham Knight is currently being discussed.

New Regency, a 20th Century Fox-based production company, once negotiated with WEP and the Mark Gordon Company for the live-action Voltron rights in 2007. However, New Regency never actually signed a deal, and other companies were allowed to negotiate for the rights. WEP said in a 2008 lawsuit that New Regency discovered that former Toei character designer Kazuo Nakamura "may possess rights" related to Golion and thus the first Voltron series.

Sylvain White (The Losers, Stomp the Yard) told the IESB.net website at WonderCon this past weekend that he has been approached to direct the live-action Robotech movie. White did not confirm whether or not he would be directing the movie, but did say he was interested in doing it. White also added that he had been sent a script and liked it, but said that the project has not yet been green-lit.

Robotech was Harmony Gold's edited and rewritten adaptation of three separate anime science-fiction series: The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, and Genesis Climber Mospeada. White indicated that the script he saw was "the first generation" storyline, but he did not directly state it was based on Macross. The producers have yet to announce how they will deal with the copyright dispute between Harmony Gold's partner Tatsunoko Production and the creators of Macross (the most popular of the three anime).

Sources: Corona Coming Attractions via ICv2, IESB via Latino Review

Lucky Star Gets Live-Action Cart-Racing TV Spinoff

posted on 2010-03-20 06:00 EDT

Voice actor Minoru Shiraishi to race against anime staff, cast for publicity

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Not-So-Daily Link of the Day II: Minoru Shiraishi, the voice actor of the character by the same name in Lucky Star, will be launching a spinoff series of live-action TV shorts called Lucky Racer on April 2. Shiraishi will compete in cart-racing with the staff and voice cast of the anime, and the winners can then debut products or publicize themselves.

Lucky Racer will run within the Seitokai no Ichizon anime's timeslot when the BS11 broadcast satellite channel runs that anime on Fridays at midnight. The Kadokawa Anime Channel will then start streaming each Lucky Racer episode on Saturday, April 3.

Bandai Entertainment has been releasing both the Lucky Star anime and the original four-panel manga by Kagami Yoshimizu in North America.

Ryō Kurashina's Jotei Kaoruko to get Live-Action TV Drama

posted on 2010-03-19 07:21 EDT

Sequel to Jotei to focus on Ginza hostess searching for her mother

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The Sports Hochi newspaper reports that Japanese television station TV Asahi will debut a live-action drama adaptation of Ryō Kurashina's Jotei Kaoruko manga in April.

Kurashina's other works include Ai Doll, Yaoh, and Jō-ō; Yaoh and Jō-ō had already been turned into a live-action dramas in 2005. Kushina's Teiō and Jō-ō Virgin ~Roppongi night GP part II~ and have also been given a live-action drama adaptation. Jotei Kaoruko is a loose continuation of Kurashina's Jotei manga, which was also turned into a live-action drama in 2007.

Jotei Kaoruko follows Saya, a woman who becomes a Ginza hostess right after high school, and her search for her mother, whom she's been separated from her entire life. Model and actress Mirei Kiritani (Otomen, Hana-Kimi), will star as Saya in her first leading role.

Source: Tokyograph

Manga UK to Release Live-Action Higanjima Film

posted on 2010-03-16 10:00 EDT

Volcano High director, Death Note writer adapted Kōji Matsumoto's horror manga

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The British anime distributor Manga Entertainment has announced it will release Tae-Gyun Kim's live-action film adaptation of Kōji Matsumoto's Higanjima supernatural horror manga on DVD and Blu-ray. The film is slated for a summer 2010 release.

The manga is named after a fictional island where the brother (Dai Watanabe) of the main character Akira Miyamoto (Hideo Ishiguro) went missing two years ago. Miyamoto leads a search party of friends to the island and discovers that there are vampires and other creatures lurking on it. Tetsuya Oishi, the screenwriter for the live-action Death Note films, scripted this new film for the director of Volcano High. The film opened Japan on January 9, ranking at #9 in Japanese theaters during its first weekend.

Source: MangaUK's Twitter

Priest Film's Behind-the-Scenes Videos Streamed

posted on 2010-03-16 07:22 EDT

Live-action version of Min-Woo Hyung's horror manhwa to open in January

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The MovieWeb site has posted Entertainment Weekly's recent 90-second behind-the-scenes video about the live-action film loosely inspired by Min-Woo Hyung's Priest horror manhwa. The video covers the final day of the two-month filming and the cast members' thoughts on the film. Entertaiment Tonight's own website has been streaming an earlier behind-the-scenes video segment from December. The film is currently slated to open on January 14, 2011.

Scott Charles Stewart (Legion) is directing the film. The film stars Paul Bettany (A Beautiful Mind, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, The Da Vinci Code), Cam Gigandet (Twilight, The O.C.), Maggie Q (Mission: Impossible III, Live Free or Die Hard, King of Fighters), Karl Urban (Star Trek, The Lord of the Rings, The Bourne Supremacy), Stephen Moyer (True Blood, The Starter Wife), and Christopher Plummer (The Sound of Music, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country).

The manhwa tells the story of an expert in ancient languages who accidentally resurrects an angel from Hell, Temozareal. The man is forced to sell his soul to the Devil in a attempt to correct his mistake. Cory Goodman (The Brood) wrote the movie adaptation's script. According to Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, the film version "is set in a world ravaged by war between man and vampire."

Toma's X Diary Slice-of-Life Manhwa to Get U.S. Film

posted on 2010-03-15 07:48 EDT

Post-breakup story produced by manhwa publisher Netcomics

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Toma's X Diary manhwa is slated to get a film adaptation aimed at the United States. The slice-of-life story follows a couple — a cartoonist and her musician boyfriend — after they break up but decide to remain friends. Kaiman Apple is making his directorial debut with this film, and Kevan Peterson adapted the manhwa for the screenplay. Casting is scheduled to begin in June, followed by filming in October.

Vice President Soyoung Jung of Netcomics, the American print and online subsidiary of South Korea's Ecomix, is producing the US$10-million project. Netcomics had published the manga in North America in 2006.

Source: Variety via ICv2