Assassination Classroom’s Eiichirō Hasumi is directing the 2022 film starring Kanna Hashimoto.
Kodoani.com – The official website for the live-action horror manga adaptation Karada Sagashi (Body Search) by Katsutoshi Murase and Welzard has revealed the film’s teaser image and October 14 opening date on Monday.
Kanna Hashimoto (seen left below) plays protagonist Asuka Morisaki and director Eiichirō Hasumi (Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness , live-action Assassination Classroom) will reunite with Hashimoto for the first time in six years. Filming began fully last September in the city of Kitakyūshū in Fukuoka Prefecture. Harumi Doki is writing the script and Yūgo Kanno is composing the music for the film.
The original web novel Everystarpage inspired a manga adaptation by Murase. The story revolves around Asuka, a high school student who sees the apparition of a dead student named Haruka, asking Asuka to find her body. As the story progresses, Asuka and her friends attempt to find the eight pieces of Haruka’s body scattered throughout the school, and learn more about the Reds hunting them as they do so. The Reds hunt down the students who are alone at the school to kill them, and until they get out of the school gates, the Reds will continue to appear in front of them. When the Red Man kills a student, it scatters the student’s body into eight pieces, and tasks another person with finding the pieces in the school. If Asuka doesn’t find Haruka’s body, the day will continue to repeat and she and her friends will continue to die until they do.
Murase drew the manga from September 2014 to December 2017 on Shueisha’s Shonen Jump + website, making it the first series to reach over 100 million views. Shueisha published the manga’s 17th and final volume in February 2018, and in total these volumes have more than three million copies in circulation. Murase launched the Karada Sagashi Kai sequel manga in January 2018 and ended it in January 2019. Shueisha published the fifth and final volume in March 2019.
The manga inspired a short anime series that debuted on Production IG’s Tate Anime (now Anime Beans) app in July 2017.
Via: Kodoani.com