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Live-Action Siren Casts Nanao, Hiromitsu Kitayama

The official website of the live-action series adaptation of Sayaka Yamazaki's Siren "crime love suspense" manga announced additional cast for the series on Thursday.

Actress and model Nanao (pictured right) will play Kara Tachibana, the mysterious and beautiful woman who holds the key to solving the mystery at the heart of the series' plot. The character works as a hostess, and forms a strange attachment to Yuki Inokuma.

Johnny's boy band Kis-My-Ft2 member Hiromitsu Kitayama will play Tsubasa Hayami, an original character not present in the original manga. He is the rival detective to Satomi and Inokuma, and has a strong desire to climb the ranks, but possesses a disagreeable personality.

Both will join the currently announced cast:

Tōri Matsuzaka (live-action Gatchaman, Kyō, Koi o Hajimemasu) as Shinobu Satomi

Fumino Kimura (live-action Kyō, Koi o Hajimemasu, Piece of Cake) as Yuki Inokuma

The series' staff also unveiled a production still from the show's first episode, showing Matsuzaka, Kimura, and Nanao in costume as their characters.

Yamazaki's original manga centers around two officers in the police's mobile investigation team: Shinobu Satomi (Matsuzaka) and Yuki Inokuma (Kimura). The two are partners and also lovers. At the site of a bizarre murder, they meet Kara Tachibana, a mysterious and beautiful woman, and from there, her derangement begins to derail their investigation.

The series will premiere on Kansai TV and Fuji TV on October 20, airing at 9:00 p.m. as a two-hour special for its first episode. Thereafter, it will air every Tuesday at 10:00 p.m. Keita Motohashi and Keiichirō Shiraki are directing the live-action project. Shimako Satō is writing the scripts, and Norihito Sumitomo is composing the music. The show will feature an original ending different from that of the manga.

Yamazaki (Shima Shima, Renai Mangaka, Darling wa 55-sai) launched the manga in Kodansha's Morning magazine, and ended it in this year's sixth issue of the magazine. Kodansha published the manga's seventh compiled book volume on March 23. Yamazaki's Shima Shima manga was also previously adapted into a live-action television series in 2011.

Source: Comic Natalie