mizushima hiro

It has been confirmed that the popular music manga, BECK, will have a a live action movie adaptation.  Tsutsumi Yukihiko is going to direct while Mizushima Hiro is set to play the leading role in the movie.

beck is a 34-volume manga by Harold Sakuishi that ran from 2000-2008. The manga tells the sotry of a group of Japanese teenagers who form a rock band.  The series was later adapated inot a 26-episode anime that was aired from october 2004 to March 2005.

Unlike the manga and anime series, the movie will focus on Minami "Ray" Ryusuke instead of the series lead protragonist, Tanaka "Koyuki" Yukio.  Minami is to be played by Mizushima Hiro while the role of Koyuki is to be played by Takeru Sato.  Mizushima is probably best known for his role as Namba Minami in the 2007 live action drama, Hanazakari no Kimitachi e.  He also recently portrayed Shibata Rihito in another drama, Mei-chan no Shitsuji (as seen in the magazine cover photo on the right).

30 original songs are going to be written for the movie.  The actors are going to perform the songs themselves with real instruments.  To ensure the realistic portrayal, Mizushima and the rest of the cast is to undergo rigorous training for a month.

The movie will start filming in July with a movie release date around fall 2010.

SOURCES:
Tokyograph
DramaWiki