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Takashi Miike On Waru - FINAL
Date: 9/27/2005
Director King of Japanese Shock Cinema, Takashi Miike has began filming a new movie based on the Hashida Yukari manga, Waru - FINAL. The news was announced on the 24th in Tokyo. The film will star Matsusaka Keiko (Fall Guy), Aikawa Shou, Ishibashi Ryou and Maki Hisao (Miike adapted Hisao's own Yakuza manga into the 1999 feature, Silver). The manga was originally serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine in 1970 and has ran on and off into the 00's. Waru is a edgy action / slapstick about "kidnapper whose days are numbered" and "the very beautiful but homosexual son of influential Senator". Going along with the film's title, this will be an adaptation of the final section of the original manga. Waru - FINAL opens in theaters nationwide across Japan next spring.
Source: Anime News Service