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).
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."
ニュースサイト等で取り上げて頂いてますが、坂道のアポロンが実写映画化されます。素晴らしいスタッフさん、キャストさんに恵まれました。映画の完成をいち観客として楽しみにしています。 https://t.co/SWb4nedh3Z
— 小玉ユキ (@yukicdm) April 27, 2017
Manga atnkobon 1st and 9th volume covers
TV anime key visual
Source: "Sakamichi no Apollon/Kids on the Slope" liveaction film official website
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