{"id":12810,"date":"2008-06-02T10:37:39","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T14:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=12810"},"modified":"2008-06-04T11:01:33","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T15:01:33","slug":"mw-live-action-film-in-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/mw-live-action-film-in-production\/","title":{"rendered":"MW Live Action Film in Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/mw-live-action-film-in-production.jpg\" alt=\"MW Live Action Film in Production\" title=\"MW Live Action Film in Production\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/mw-live-action-film-in-production.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/mw-live-action-film-in-production-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Sponichi Annex newspaper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sponichi.co.jp\/entertainment\/news\/2008\/06\/02\/01.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that director Hitoshi Iwamoto, director behind popular Japanese TV dramas including Nobuta wo Produce and Queen&#8217;s Classroom, is now helming a live action film adaptation of Osamu Tezuka&#8217;s 1976 suspense\/revenge story manga MW (pronounced &#8220;Mu&#8221;). Singer\/Actor Hiroshi Tamaki will star in the leading role. Filming started on April 20.  The film is scheduled for Japanese theatrical release next year. Vertical released the MW manga in a single 583 page hardcover edition last October.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyograph.com\/news\/id-3305\" target=\"_blank\">Tokyograph<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sponichi Annex newspaper reports that director Hitoshi Iwamoto, director behind popular Japanese TV dramas including Nobuta wo Produce and Queen&#8217;s Classroom, is now helming a live action film adaptation of Osamu Tezuka&#8217;s 1976 suspense\/revenge story manga MW (pronounced &#8220;Mu&#8221;). Singer\/Actor Hiroshi Tamaki will star in the leading role. Filming started on April 20. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}