Wangan Midnight the Movie to Open in Japan This Summer
The official website of Kodansha Comics has announced on Saturday that a theatrical film based on Michiharu Kusunoki's Wangan Midnight street-racing manga will open in Japan this summer. Like the previous television anime and video features, Wangan Midnight the Movie will center on a young man named Akio who salvages "Devil Z," a custom-tuned Datsun Fairlady S30Z car with a supposedly cursed history.The film will star Yuichi Nakamura (Gokusen 2, Princess Princess D, Kamen Rider Hibiki), Ryōko Kobayashi (ZOO, Kamen Rider the First, Gamera 2: Attack of Legion), Kazuki Katou (Jigoku Shoujo, The Prince of Tennis musical, Kamen Rider Kabuto), Megumi Matsumoto (Ace wo Nerae!, Tomie: Beginning, Glass no Kamen), and Yoshihiko Hakamada (The Cat Returns, Iryū - Team Medical Dragon, Q.E.D.).
The original manga ran in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits magazine and Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine from 1992 to 2008, although Kusunoki launched a new series called Wangan Midnight C1 Runner right after the old series ended last fall. The manga inspired about a dozen live-action video movies between 1991 and 2001 with a different cast than the upcoming theatrical film. Director Tsuneo Tominaga and A.C.G.T. animated a television anime series in 2004. The story is arguably best known in North America via an eight-year string of hit arcade and console videogames.
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Official website : Wangan Midnight The Movie
source : http://www.animenewsnetwork.com
photo : Chester Ng
1 comment:
Wangan... Everything's fast on the Wangan. The legend of the Devil Z made it an interesting story. This racing movie had more to do with the story from the manga than the actual driving. Some fans wished that the production made more of an effort to get the original cars, especially Reina Akikawa's wingless Skyline GT-R.
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