Super Sentai veterans join as Itō's friends, Taguchi
The official website for the live-action film adaptation of Masakazu Ishiguro's Nemurubaka manga revealed two new cast members for the film on Wednesday. Kōhei Higuchi (Avataro Sentai Donbrothers, left in the image below) and Keito Tsuna (Kishiryū Sentai Ryusoulger, right) join the cast as Itō and Taguchi, respectively. Taguchi attended the same university as Yumi Irisu and had a crush on the older Ruka Kujirai. Itō is Taguchi's friend.
Image via Nemuraka live-action film website
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The film will open in Japan in spring 2025, with Yūgo Sakamoto (Baby Assassins) directing.
Image via Nemuraka live-action film website
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Nogizaka46 member Shiori Kubo (left in the image above) plays Yumi Irusu, while Yūna Taira (live-action ReLIFE, Honey, right) plays Ruka Kujirai.
The manga revolves around the daily lives of college dormitory roommates Yumi Irusu and Ruka Kujirai. Ruka, the older of the two, is often penniless even though she is in a band. Irusu works part-time at a used bookstore.
Ishiguro launched the manga in Tokuma Shoten's Monthly Comic Ryū magazine in September 2006 and ended it in January 2008. Tokuma Shoten published a compilation booklet for the series. manga.
Ishiguro's And Yet the Town Moves and Heavenly Delusion manga are both anime-inspired works, the first anime coming out in 2010 and the latter in April 2023. J Manga worked on And Yet the Town Moves, but Crunchyroll later began simultaneously publishing the manga digitally in English, before removing all manga from its service. Manga Planet added the manga in 2020. Denpa is publishing Heavenly Delusion in English.
Ishiguro's Present for Me and Skygrazer were also released in English.
Source: Nemurubaka live-action movie
