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Live-Action Kappei Comedy Film's 1st 5 Minutes Streamed

Kappei comedy manga on Wednesday. The film will open on March 18.

Hakusensha describes the manga:

Kappei is a martial artist living in a secluded and isolated small island, among many young men training vigorously with their Master to survive the July 1999 apocalypse predicted by Nostradamus — which never came. The Master finally gave up in 2011, disbanded the martial art camp, and sent back to modern-day Japan. With no knowledge of the modern world, Kappei arrives in Tokyo and starts a new life: as a hero without antagonists.

The cast includes: (Top row, left to right in image above)

• Moka Kamishiraishi as Haru Yamase
• Hideaki Ito as Kappei
• Daigo Nishihata as Keita Iruma

(Bottom row, left to right in image above)

• Yūsuke Ōnuki as Mamoru
• Kōji Yamamoto as Masayoshi
• Yukiyoshi Ozawa as Hideo
• Arata Furuta as Shihan

The cast also includes:

• Fuku Suzuki as Takechi
• Yūki Kura as Yagi
• Nana Asakawa as Kumiko
• Taiiku Okazaki as Horita
• Kanade as Mirei
• Matenrō comedy duo Anthony and Ōtony
• Yūki Morinaga as police duo Yanagida and Teruo
• Mandy Sekiguchi as Kazuya

The film moves the story's time period to 2022. performing the film's theme song "Tekketsu†Gravity" by (Iron Blood†Gravity).

Wakasugi (ended in 2014. Hakusensha published six compiled book volumes for the manga.

Source: Comic Natalie