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AKB48's Atsuko Maeda Stars in Moshidora Film Next June
posted on by Egan Loo
Moshi Kōkō Yakyū no Joshi Manager ga Drucker no "Management" o Yondara (Moshidora) business novel next June. Makoto Tanaka is directing Maeda in her first starring role in a film.
The 2009 novel, whose title has been translated as What If a Female Manager of a High School Baseball Team Read Drucker's "Management"?, centers around a high school girl named Minami Kawashima (Maeda) who becomes the baseball team manager at Tokyo's Hodokubo High School. Minami accidentally buys Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices — a classic productivity guide by the Austrian-American management guru Peter Drucker — and uses it to rally her dispirited team.
The Minami Kawashima character was actually modeled after another AKB48 member, Yō Ōizumi will also co-star.
Not coincidentally, the novelist Iwasaki once was a producer of AKB48 and worked as an assistant for Anime Expo with AKB48 this past July.
The novel has already Super Jump magazine on December 22. The novel has 1.81 million copies in print since its debut last December, and it is this year's bestselling book in Japan. The Sankei Sports newspaper reports that over 30 companies bidded for the novel's movie rights.
Source: Sankei Sports
