It is officially confirmed today on April 25 that 54-year-old anime director Keiichi Hara is now working on an anime adaptation film of Hinako Sugiura's representative manga work Sarusuberi for a 2015 release in Japan. Hara is well-known for his directorial works for the Crayon Shin-chan anime TV/film series, 2007 film Summer Days with Coo, and 2010 film Colorful. As a freelance director, he is teaming up with acclaimed animation studio Production I.G (Ghost in the Shell) and aiming to complete the film by the end of this year.
Sarusuberi is also the Japanese name of Crape-myrtle. Sugiura's manga was serialized in Jitsugyo no Nihonsha's Manga Sunday from 1983 to 1987. The three tankobon volumes compiled by the original publisher are already out of print. Currently, only the two-volume pocket edition by Chikuma Bunko is
available in Japan. It tells a life of a famous ukiyo-e painter Hokusai Katsushika, his daughter Oei, and
the people around them in the Edo period of Japan.
The teaser visual
The cover of the first volume of the Chikuma Bunko edition
Source: Comic Natalie
(c)2014 Hinako Sugiura, MS.HS/"Sarusuberi" Production Committee
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