Official website for the live-action film Let’s Go Karaoke! by Yama Wayama! (Karaoke Iko!) The manga revealed four cast members on Friday.
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The newly announced actors are (pictured above from left to right), English version not confirmed):
The film will have its world premiere at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival in Taiwan on November 15. Director Nobuhiro Yamashita will attend. The website also announced that the film will be shown in Taiwan.
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Jun Saitō (left in the image above) will play middle school student Satomi Oka, while Gou Ayano will play yakuza member Kyouji Narita.
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Other cast members include:
(Top row, left to right in the image above)
(Bottom row, left to right in image above) Chance Oshiro as Ogata RED RICE as Mine Hiroki Okabe as Matsubara Yagi Miki as Nakagawa Kiyoto Ushiro as Wada
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The film was previously scheduled to open this year but was delayed to January 2024.
Nobuhiro Yamashita (Linda Linda Linda, live-action Cream Lemon) will direct the film, with a script by Akiko Nogi (INU-OH, Library Wars, live-action I am a Hero).
Yen Press licensed the manga and released it on May 24. Yen Press describes the manga:
Nothing makes Satomi Oka more nervous than the upcoming final choir competition of his middle school career—until he is caught by a stranger from the shadows who demands, “Let’s go sing.” karaoke!”As a yakuza, Kyouji Narita is not easily scared, but a terrifying scenario prompts him to seek Satomi’s help. The boss is holding a karaoke contest, the loser is forced to get a tattoo to be chosen and tortured by the boss himself! Oka has participated in many vocal rehearsals over the years, but has never had a private karaoke session with a gangster!!
Wayama released the manga as a dōjin publication in 2019, and Kadokawa published it in September 2020. The manga came in third place in the 14th Manga Taisho awards in 2021. The manga has 500,000 copies sold. circulate.
Source: Let’s Go Karaoke! website for the live-action film, Comic Natalie
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