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From Five to Nine's Live-Action Show Adds More Cast

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Saeko, Kei Tanaka, Rin Takanashi, more added to cast for series premiering in October

The official website for 5→9 Watashi ni Koi Shita Ikemen Sugiru Obō-san (5→9 The Hot Monk Who Fell in Love With Me), the live-action TV series adaptation of Miki Aihara's From Five to Nine (Go-ji kara Ku-ji made) manga, revealed additional cast members for the show on Sunday.

The additional cast includes:

Kei Tanaka as Kiyomiya
Yūki Furukawa as Satoshi Mishima
Rin Takanashi as Momoe Yamabuchi
Saeko as Masako Mōri
Miyu Yoshimoto as Kaori Ashikaga
Reo Nagatsuma as Renji Hachiya
Yuri Tsunematsu as Nene Sakuraba
Kokoro Terada as Sankyuu Naha
Mokomichi Hayami as Arthur Kimura (the character's name in the original manga was Arthur Lange)
Keiko Toda as Keiko Sakuraba
Ryūhei Ueshima as Minoru Sakuraba
Takehiko Ono as Mitsuyoshi Terada
Mariko Kaga as Hibari Hoshikawa

An Nakamura will also play a role in the series.

The series stars Satomi Ishihara (live-action Attack on Titan's Hange Zoë, Legend of the Millennium Dragon's Mizuha, pictured above right) as Junko Sakuraba, the show's protagonist. Tomohisa Yamashita (live-action Ikebukuro West Gate Park's Shun Mizuno, live-action Kurosagi's Kurosagi) will play Takane Hoshikawa, the monk whom Junko's parents set her up with.

Shin Hirano (Hero, Last Cinderella) and Masaki Tanimura (live-action Nodame Cantabile, Honey and Clover) will direct the series, and Shōta Koyama (live-action The Perfect Insider) is writing the scripts. Back Number will perform the show's theme song.

The series will premiere on Fuji TV in October, and will air every Monday at 9:00 p.m.

The manga centers on Junko Sakuraba, a 27-year-old lecturer at an English conversation school who has no boyfriend. Her parents set up a marriage interview for her with a man who turns out to be a Buddhist monk. However, Junko has no intention of becoming a temple wife, so she refuses to do the interview. Soon afterward, the man signs up to become her private student.

Aihara (Honey Hunt, Hot Gimmick, Tokyo Boys & Girls) launched the series in Cheese! in January 2010 after publishing a one-shot in 2009. Shogakukan will release the 11th compiled volume on September 25, and a limited edition of the volume will include a drama CD.

Viz Media released Hot Gimmick, Honey Hunt, and Tokyo Boys & Girls in North America.

Source: Comic Natalie


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