The film will premiere in January 2024
The official website for the live-action Let’s Go Karaoke! by Yama Wayama! (Karaoke Iko!) The manga revealed the new cast for the film on Friday.
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The cast includes:
(Top row, left to right in the image above)
(bottom row, left to right in the 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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© 2023 「カラオケ行こ! 」製作委員会
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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The film was previously scheduled to open this year but was delayed to January 2024.
Nobuhiro Yamashita (Linda Linda Linda, live-action Cream Lemon film) is directing the film, with a script by Akiko Nogi (INU-OH, Library Wars , live-action I’m a Hero movie).
Yen Press licensed the manga and released the manga on May 24. Yen Press describes the manga:
Nothing worries Satomi Oka more than the upcoming final choir competition of his middle school career—until he is caught by a stranger from the shadows and asks, “Let’s go sing.” karaoke!” As a yakuza, Kyouji Narita is not easily frightened, but a terrifying prospect prompts him to seek Satomi’s help. The boss is holding a karaoke contest, the loser is forced to get a tattoo to be selected and tortured by the boss himself! Oka has been to many vocal training sessions over the years, but 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 at number three in the 14th Manga Taisho awards in 2021. The manga has sold 500,000 copies. circulate.
Sourcex: Let’s go Karaoke! website for the live-action film, Comic Natalie
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