Rurouni Kenshin, My Love Story!! actress plays antagonist in 2017 film
The official website for the live-action film adaptation of Miwa Ueda's Peach Girl shōjo manga revealed on Saturday that Mei Nagano (live-action Rurouni Kenshin's Tsubame, live-action My Love Story!!'s Rinko) will play the role of antagonist Sae Kashiwagi in the film.
Mizuki Yamamoto (live-action Black Butler film) will star as Momo and idol group Hey!Say!JUMP's Kei Inoo will play Kairi in his first film role. Koji Shintoku will direct the film, and Junpei Yamaoka (Kamen Teacher, 2015'sTsuri Baka Nisshi) is writing the screenplay. The film will open in 2017.
The original shojo manga ran in Kodansha's Bessatsu Friend magazine from its October 1997 issue through its January 2004 issue. Ueda also published a spinoff manga, Peach Girl: Sae’s Story, in 2005. Tokyopoppublished both the original manga and the spinoff in North America, but split the original manga into two separate series: Peach Girl and Peach Girl: Change of Heart.
The series inspired a live-action drama in Taiwan in 2001 and a Japanese television anime in 2005. Funimationreleased the anime adaptation.
Source: Comic Natalie
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