Live-action Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure movie’s new trailer teases the ‘Stands’  Read more: http://sgcafe.com/2017/04/video-live-action-jojos-bizarre-adventure-movies-new-trailer-teases-stands/#ixzz4finW7VBJ

Live-action Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure movie’s new trailer teases the ‘Stands’

Yuri Chinen, 23-year-old member of Japanese boy idol group Hey! Say! JUMP, is confirmed to star as the protagonist Kaoru Nishimi in the upcoming live-action film adaptation of Yuki Kodama’s Jazz music-themed manga Sakamichi no Apollon/Kids on the Slope to be released in 2018. For this role, Chinen started taking piano lessons in September 2016.

Kaoru’s friend drummer Sentaro Kawabuchi is played by 18-year-old Taishi Nakagawa (Arata Kaizaki in ReLIFE) and Kaoru’s love interest and Sentaro’s childhood friend Ritsuko Mukae is portrayed by 21-year-old Nana Komatsu (Yukako Yamagishi in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable).

42-year-old Miki Takahiro, who has worked on many live-action film adaptations based on popular manga series, such as Inio Asao’s Soranin (2010), Yuki Obata’s Bokura ga Ita/We Were There (2012), Taku Tsumugi’s Hot Road (2014), Io Sakisaka’s Ao Haru Ride (2014), and Kazune Kawahara’s Aozora Yell/Yell for The Blue Sky, is attached to direct on a screenplay by Izumi Takahashi (Himitsu The Top Secret,Museum).

Live-action Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure movie’s new trailer teases the ‘Stands’ Read more: http://sgcafe.com/2017/04/video-live-action-jojos-bizarre-adventure-movies-new-trailer-teases-stands/#ixzz4finW7VBJ
Live-action Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure movie’s new trailer teases the ‘Stands’ Read more: http://sgcafe.com/2017/04/video-live-action-jojos-bizarre-adventure-movies-new-trailer-teases-stands/#ixzz4finW7VBJ

The manga was serialized in Shogakukan’s shojo manga magazine Monthly Flowers from 2007 to 2012,

then compiled in nine tonkobon volumes and one spin-off story volume. It was adapted into a 12 TV anime series animated by MAPPA and Tezuka Production that aired in Japan from April to June 2012.

The original manga author Kodama has posted her comment on the live-action film:

“As it has been already reported on the news sites and other media, Sakamichi no Apollon will get its live-action film adaptation. It fortunately has a wonderful staff and cast. Just as one audience, I am looking forward to the completion of the film.”


Manga atnkobon 1st and 9th volume covers

 

TV anime key visual

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