TV Asahi announced on Wednesday that it is producing a live-action adaptation of Takeshi Narutohara and Takashi Hamori's Densetsu no Head Sho manga and will premiere in July. Fumiya Takahashi (Kamen Rider Zero-One, see below) will play both protagonist Tatsuhito Yamada and gang leader Shō Ijūin. Takashi Sumida, Keisuke Kondō and Hisashi Ueda will direct the film, with a script by Kazunao Furuya and music by Alisa Okehazama.
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The manga revolves around the chance meeting between two people who look identical: gang leader Shō Ijūin, who belongs to the Grand Cross gang with over 1,000 members, and Tatsuhito Yamada, a student at the lowest level. in group. school level. Circumstances forced them to change their lives.
Natsuhara and Hamori published the manga in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 2003 to 2005. This is Tsuhara's debut. Kodansha has published 11 compilation volumes for the manga.
Natushara and Kuromaru then worked on the manga Kurosagi-The Black Swindler, which ran in Shogakukan's Weekly Young Sunday from 2003 to 2008, with 20 compiled volumes. The sequel series, titled Shin Kurosagi, debuted in Weekly Young Sunday, but moved to Big Comic Spirits after Young Sunday ceased publication in 2008. The sequel manga ran until 2012, with 18 volumes published. compilation. Shin Kurosagi Kanketsu-hen began in 2012 and ended in 2013, with four volumes compiled. The manga inspired a live-action television series starring Tomohisa Yamashita in 2006, a live-action film sequel in 2008, as well as a new live-action film series premiering in October 2022.
Natsuhara and Hiroki Miyashita launched the Yakuza Reincarnation manga in Shogakukan's Sunday GX magazine in July 2019 and is currently ongoing. Seven Seas Entertainment is releasing the manga in English.
Source: Comic Natalie