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Teiichi no Kuni Live-Action Film Opens in Hong Kong in October

posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Film opened in Japan on April 29, earned 1.92 billion yen

Hong Kong film distributor Neofilms announced on Thursday that it will open the live-action film of Usamaru Furuya's Teiichi no Kuni (Teiichi's Country) manga in Hong Kong on October 12.

The film opened in Japan on April 29. The film earned 1.92 billion yen (US$17.5 million) and was the #9 top earning domestic film in Japan in 2017 as of June.

The film's cast includes (clockwise from top left):

  • Masaki Suda as Teiichi Akaba
  • Shūhei Nomura as Kikuma Tōdō, Teiichi's underhanded classmate and childhood friend
  • Ryōma Takeuchi as Dan Ōtaka, Teiichi's naturally charismatic classmate
  • Shōtarō Mamiya as Roland Himuro, the student favored to be the next student council president
  • Kōtarō Yoshida as Jōsuke Akaba, Teiichi's father, and an alumnus at Teiichi's Kaitei High School
  • Mei Nagano as Mimiko Shiratori, Teiichi's secret friend
  • Jun Shison as Teiichi's right-hand man, the uncommonly handsome Kōmei Sakakibara
  • Yudai Chiba as Okuto Morizono, a member of the shogi club

Akira Nagai (Sekai Kara Neko ga Kieta Nara) directed the film, and Yoshihiro Izumi (live-action Death Note, anohana) penned the script. Rock band CreepHyp (RIN-NE 2) performed the film's theme song "Ito."

The manga's story follows the high school student Teiichi Akaba and his student government struggles at a private boys' school in Shōwa-era Japan.

The manga also inspred a five-episode spinoff live-action series with the same cast as the film, which premiered on Fuji TV on April 28.

Furuya launched Teiichi no Kuni (Teiichi's Country) in the inaugural issue of Jump SQ. 19 in May 2010, but moved the manga to the main Jump Square magazine in its March 2012 issue. Shueisha shipped the 14th and final volume in May 2016.

The manga has already inspired three stage plays, and the latest stage play, "Saishūshō" Gakuran Kageki: Teiichi no Kuni -Kessen no Last Dance- ("Final Chapter" School Uniform Opera: Teiichi's Country -Bloody Battle's Last Dance-), ran in Tokyo in March 2016.


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