The official version of the girls' manga "Principal" was recently announced to be adapted into a live-action movie. The male and female protagonists Gen Tatebayashi and Shin will be played by Nozomu Otaki and Yuuna Kuroshima respectively. The film will start shooting in March and is expected to be released in 2018.
Since 2012, Kuroshima Yuina has appeared in many movies and Japanese TV series, and has performed well in works such as "Burning Sunflowers", "Blue Flame", "Sorry Youth", and "The First Train Runs", and is well known to the public. The male lead, Kotaki Nozomi, is a member of the Japanese idol group Johnny's WEST. This will be his first time to play the male lead in a film or TV work.
"Principal" is the latest serialized work by the girl manga artist Ikue Aya. The manga is set in Sapporo, Hokkaido, where she lives. The heroine, Seima, is a high school girl who moved there from Tokyo. Seima is entangled with several tangled emotional lines in the work: she likes Kazuo, but supports him and the music teacher Xiao Gong to have a beautiful relationship; she encourages Haruka, who likes Uehara, to work hard for love; she looks forward to her father and the new mother to start a new life, but she herself is alone. In the original manga, the description of ordinary human emotions is very delicate, and the characters created by the author are both real and charming.
