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Live-Action Gangoose Film's Teaser Reveals November Opening
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website for the live-action film adaptation of Daisuke Suzuki and Keisuke Hiya's Gangoose manga began streaming a teaser video for the film on Wednesday. The video reveals the film's November opening.
The main cast includes:
Mahiro Takasugi as Saike, the group's intel man and planner
Daichi Watanabe as Takeo, the group's driver
Other cast members include Kento Hayashi, Aoi Itō, Maika Yamamoto, Sumire Ashina, Katsuya, Hannya, Ken Sugawara, Shōta Saitō, Keita Saito, Nobuaki Kaneko, Mariko Shinoda, and MIYAVI.
Yū Irie is directing the film, and is penning the script alongside Kiyoto Wada.
The manga centers on three boys named Kazuki, Saike, and Takeo, united by their shared experience of parental abuse and spending their youth in reform school. They decide that in order to survive, they need to become criminals, and embark on an extortion racket together.
Reporter and writer Suzuki (no relation to the OniAi writer) and artist Hiya launched the manga in Kodansha's Morning magazine in 2013, and ended it in January 2017. Kodansha published the manga's 16th and final compiled book volume in April 2017. The manga contains situations that are based on true stories based on information that Suzuki had collected. Suzuki himself served as a crime reporter for 13 years, and has written numerous non-fiction books based on crime and poverty in Japan.
Sources: Gangoose film's official website, Comic Natalie