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Anohana Gets Live-Action TV Special Starring UA's Son Nijirō Murakami
posted on by Egan Loo
A live-action television special based on the anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day anime will air on Fuji TV this year. Nijirō Murakami, the oldest son of 41-year-old actor Jun Murakami and 43-year-old singer UA, will star. The 18-year-old actor had appeared in Takashi Miike's live-action As the Gods Will horror film and garnered his first starring role in Still the Water (Futatsume no Mado) film, will ran at the Cannes Film Festival last year.
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The original Spring 2011 television anime followed several childhood friends who try to reconnect in high school, after drifting apart due to tragedy five years earlier. It inspired a manga and a 2013 film sequel.
Playing the six member of the "Super Peace Busters" club are (from left to right in the photograph above) 21-year-old Yūta Takahata (The Eternal Zero), 18-year-old Airi Matsui (live-action Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches, 2014's GTO, Hell Teacher Nube), Murakami, 14-year-old Minami Hamabe (live-action Ace Attorney), 20-year-old Jun Shison (Ressha Sentai ToQger), and 17-year-old Marie Ītoyo (S -Saigo no Keikan-, Nobunaga Concerto).
Source: Sankei Sports