{"id":17254,"date":"2009-08-03T15:29:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T19:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/03\/kyou-kara-hitman-live-action-movie-announced\/"},"modified":"2009-08-03T15:29:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T19:29:48","slug":"kyou-kara-hitman-live-action-movie-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/kyou-kara-hitman-live-action-movie-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyou Kara Hitman Live Action Movie Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/gnj0908010502004-p4.jpg\" alt=\"gnj0908010502004-p4\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/gnj0908010502004-p4.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/gnj0908010502004-p4-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Sankei Sports Newspaper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanspo.com\/geino\/news\/090801\/gnj0908010502004-n1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that Kenji Yokoi (Watch Me) will direct actor\/musician Shinji Takeda (Gohatto) in a live action feature film adaptation of Hiroshi Mutou&#8217;s action drama manga series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nihonbungeisha.co.jp\/goraku\/hitman\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kyou Kara Hitman<\/a>. The 2006 and ongoing manga is the story of a salaryman who gets mixed up in the death of a legendary hitman, consequently and inadvertently becoming the killer&#8217;s successor. In addition to starring, Takeda will also compose and perform the movie&#8217;s theme song, &#8220;The Hitman.&#8221; The movie is tentatively scheduled to open this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyograph.com\/news\/id-5100\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sankei Sports Newspaper reports that Kenji Yokoi (Watch Me) will direct actor\/musician Shinji Takeda (Gohatto) in a live action feature film adaptation of Hiroshi Mutou&#8217;s action drama manga series Kyou Kara Hitman. The 2006 and ongoing manga is the story of a salaryman who gets mixed up in the death of a legendary hitman, [&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-17254","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\/17254","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=17254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17255,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17254\/revisions\/17255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}