EXCLUSIVE: Japanese studio Nikkatsu has picked up international sales for Wind Breaker, the live-action adaptation of a hit manga series by Satoru Nii.
Nikkatsu will introduce international buyers to the feature at the Asian Contents and Film Market (ACFM) in Busan, which runs September 20-23.
The film, set for release in Japan on December 5, is directed by Kentaro Hagiwara and based on a script by Yosuke Masaike. Hagiwara is known for manga adaptations such as Blue Period and Tokyo Ghoul, while Masaike penned the script for Anime Supremacy!, which was nominated for the Japan Academy Award for best screenplay in 2023.
Wind Breaker will bedistributed by Warner Bros. Japan and produced by Yoshitaka Kamo of Michihito Fujii’s Hard Days.
The action brawler stars Koshi Mizukami (Till We Meet Again on the Lily Hill) as a new student at a high school filled with juvenile delinquents who use their strengths to defend their town.
The film was shot on location in Okinawa, southern Japan, between February and April this year on an open-air set replicating the shopping avenue that serves as a key location in the manga.
The Wind Breaker manga, written and illustrated by Nii, launched on publisher Kodansha’s Magazine Pocket manga website in 2021 and is ongoing. It has also been adapted into an anime series, which launched in 2024 and has run for two seasons. The manga, which is published by Kodansha USA in English, has more than 8 million copies in circulation.
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