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Tensai Bakabon's Akatsuka Inspires Biographical Film
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Film on manga creator's life based on book by Toshiki Takei
The Toshiki Takei.
Ryoichi Kimizuka (Bayside Shakedown, Nobody to Watch Over Me) wrote the script and Hideaki Sato (The Suspect: Muroi Shinji, The Unbroken) is directing. Filming will last from the beginning of July to the middle of August, and the film is slated to open throughout Japan next spring.
Fujio Akatsuka, the creator of many popular comedy gag manga and one of the earliest magical girl manga (Himitsu no Akko-chan), ed away of pneumonia on August 2, 2008.
Source: Tokyo Extra Notes via Nippon Cinema
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