#Akira Saso’s Contemporary Music-themed Manga Musicophilia Gets A Live-action Film This Fall

25-year-old actor Kai Inowaki (The Fable, Silent Tokyo) will play the lead role for the first time in the forthcoming live-action film adaptation of Akira Saso’s manga about contemporary music, Musicophilia. It will be produced as the final chapter the trilogy live-action film project following Shindo (2006) and Maestro! (2015), both of which were based on Saso’s music-themed manga. The film is set to be released in Japan in the fall of 2021. 

The manga was first serialized in Futabasha’s Manga Action from January 2011 to May 2012, then moved to the publisher’s Web Comic Action website and ended serialization in November of the 2012. A total of five tankobon volumes were released.

Its story centers on Saku Urushibara, who has a special ability to understand the “sound” in nature and hear the shapes and colors of things as “sound.” He enters an art university in Kyoto while having no confidence in creating music, and accidentally throws himself into the world of contemporary music. Through various encounters, he starts creating his own music.

Masaaki Taniguchi (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time live-action film in 2010) serves as director. Honoka Matsumoto and Ikusaburo Yamazaki will co-star in the film. 

Source: Eiga.com

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