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Wind Breaker Manga Gets Live-Action Film This December

The second television anime season of Satoru Nii's Wind Breaker manga on Thursday.ended on Friday with an early teaser video that announces a live-action film adaptation. The film will open this December.

The staff shot the film on location from this past February to April in Oikinawa. The production rented a local shopping avenue, dressed up each shop for the film, and made an giant open set.

Kentarō Hagiwara (live-action Blue Period, Tokyo Ghoul, Dragons of Wonderhatch, Our 30 Minute Sessions) is directing the film off a script by Japan Academy Prize winner Yōsuke Masaike (live-action Anime Supremacy!, A Girl & Her Guard Dog) Warner Brothers is distributing the film.

Kodansha USA Publishing licensed the manga and has been releasing it digitally in English since spring 2022. It is now also publishing the series in print, and will release new print volumes monthly starting in July. The company describes the manga:

An adrenaline-filled manga set in a high school for delinquents who are now heroes protecting their town. A fierce, new student arrives at the school determined to fight his way to the top and become the strongest of them all. This edgy, action-packed manga is guaranteed to excite fans of Tokyo Revengers and other stories about high school delinquents.

Haruka Sakura wants nothing to do with weaklings—he's only interested in the strongest of the strong. He's just started at Furin High School, a school of degenerates known only for their brawling strength—strength they use to protect their town from anyone who wishes it ill. But Haruka's not interested in being a hero or being part of any sort of team—he just wants to fight his way to the top!

Nii launched the manga in Kodansha's Magazine Pocket app in Japanese in January 2021.

The manga received a stage play adaptation that ran from January 1-3 in Osaka, and from January 10-19 in Tokyo. A Wind Breaker Furyō-tachi no Eiyūtan (Wind Breaker: Heroic Tales of Delinquents) the game launched on March 12 for smartphones and PC.

Sources: Wind Breaker film's press release, website, Comic Natalie