Live-Action ‘Ame no Naka no Yokujō’ Film Reveals Teaser, 2 Visuals – News

The official web site for the live-action film of Yoshiharu Tsuge‘s “Ame no Naka no Yokujō” (Need within the Rain) manga quick story unveiled a teaser trailer and two new visuals for the movie on Tuesday.

The movie will open on November 29.

The movie stars Ryō Narita as Yoshio, Eriko Nakamura as Fukuko, Gō Morita as Imori, and Naoto Takenaka as Oyaji. Different solid members embody Tomomitsu Adachi, Yuki Nakanishi, Yūya Matsuura, Makoto Tsuchi, Kaori Momo, and Kū Ijima, and Li Xing. Shinzo Katayama is directing the movie, and can be penning the script alongside Takamase Ōe.

The movie’s story facilities on Yoshio, a poor and struggling manga artist who lives in Kitamachi. He’s despatched by Oyaji, the owner of his condo who can be engaged in different shady companies, to assist a novelist referred to as Imori transfer in, and meets a recently-divorced lady named Fukuko. Yoshio is straight away bewitched by her magnificence, although she is already seeing another person. Within the meantime, Imori establishes an promoting company, borrowing the title of a bigger company from the wealthier Minamicho, to be able to promote his novel. Yoshio finally ends up serving to with Imori’s efforts, and in some way Imori and Fukuko come to dwell along with Yoshio.

Tsuge printed the quick manga in Hokutoh Shoboh‘s Yagyō journal in 1981.

Tsuge was a pioneer of gekiga (“dramatic footage”) comics, a style named by Yoshihiro Tatsumi in 1957 to explain an alternate model of manga that stresses realism and is aimed toward adults. He’s maybe finest recognized for his 1968 manga Neji-Shiki (“Screw-Style“), a surreal story a couple of man wandering a desolate, post-war Japan.

Teruo Ishii directed a live-action movie adaptation of Neji-Shiki in 1998. Panik Home released the movie in North America beneath the title Screwed.

Drawn & Quarterly is releasing the whole works of Yoshiharu Tsuge in a seven-volume set. Ryan Holmberg is translating the works.

Sources: Ame no Naka no Yokujō live-action movie’s website, Comic Natalie