Kodoani.com – WOWOW announced on Wednesday that they are in production Hotel -Next Door-a new live-action series titled based on the manga hotel by Shotaro Ishinomori. The series will premiere on WOWOW in September, and will star Dean Fujioka (see below) as Katsuaki Saegusa.
The manga revolves around the many employees and guests of the Hotel Platon hotel in Tokyo, with each chapter focusing on a different individual. The new series shifts the scene to the present day, with Hotel Platon declining in a cutthroat world of competing hotels and a host of bad management. Katsuaki Saegusa, a mysterious genius in the hotel business, is brought in as the hotel’s new general manager, but rumors swirl around his arrival just to facilitate the sale and purchase of goods and services. farewell hotel. Within months of his appointment, he had made sweeping changes to the hotel’s operations, but he was hiding a big secret and an even bigger goal.
Osamu Minorikawa (live-action Tramps Like Us 2017 ) is directing the series. Masahiro Yamaura and Kiyoto Kawaguchi are writing the script. Takahiro Kido and Yuki Murata are composing the music..
Ishinomori drew the manga in Shogakukan’s Big Comic magazine from 1984 until his death in 1998. The manga won the Best General Seinen Manga award in the Shogakukan Manga Awards in 1987. The manga previously had was adapted into a live-action series. ran on TBS from 1990 to 2002.
Ishinomori is the creator of the Kamen Rider anime series, and the original manga ran alongside the first television series in 1971. Ishinomori has also created the similarly long-running Super Sentai tokusatsu series, both franchises continued. There are continuously new TV series and movies every year to this day, and there are also cross over movies every year. He is also the author of the Cyborg 009 manga, which has inspired numerous anime adaptations. Ishinomori passed away in 1998.
Via: Kodoani.com