My Little Monster Manga Gets Live-Action Film Starring Masaki Suda, Tao Tsuchiya 

My Little Monster Manga Gets Live-Action Film Starring Masaki Suda, Tao Tsuchiya

Shō Tsukikawa directs live-action film slated for 2018

(left in picture below) is playing the character Haru Yoshida in what he announced would be his last movie playing a student in uniform.

) is directing the film. The film is planned to start shooting in late May, and is slated for 2018.

Mizutani is a self-absorbed overachiever,​ concerned only with maintaining the highest grades in school.​ Haru is an impulsive short tempered brute,​ who scares everyone with his explosive bursts of violence.​

Haru gets suspended on the first day of school when he encounters some bullies harassing a student and dispatches the bullies with great bloody violence.​ Mizutani is tasked with delivering school materials to Haru who interprets this as an act of friendship and latches on to Mizutani,​ much to her dismay.​ And so begins a strange and potentially combustible relationship!

published all 13 volumes in English. The manga inspired a television anime series that ran in 2012.

released the series on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in North America in June 2015.

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