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Live-Action My Love Story!!/Ore Monogatari!! Opens in Singapore on March 3

Singaporean film distributor Odex began streaming an English-subtitled trailer for the live-action film adaptation of Kazune Kawahara and Aruko's My Love Story!! (Ore Monogatari!!) manga. The trailer reveals that Odex will open the film in Singapore on March 3.

Odex describes the film:

Takeo Goda (Ryōhei Suzuki) is a high school student 2 m tall and weighing more than 100 kg. He has a righteous character. The male students adore him, but female students do not like him. All of the girls Takeo likes prefer his handsome friend Makoto Sunakawa (Kentaro Sakaguchi).

One day, Takeo saves female high school student Rinko Yamato (Mei Nagano) from a pervert on the train. Takeo falls in love with her at first sight. He feels Rinko likes Makoto, but Makoto isn't the one she likes. Takeo struggles to liaise between Rinko and Makoto.

Odex is releasing the film in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines between January and February.

The film's main cast includes:

Ryōhei Suzuki (Gatchaman) as Takeo Gōda
Mei Nagano (Rurouni Kenshin) as Rinko Yamato
Kentarō Sakaguchi (Umimachi Diary) as Makoto Sunakawa
Yasufumi Terawaki (Boogiepop and Others) and Yutaka Gōda (Takeo's father)
Sawa Suzuki (Aibō) as Yuriko Gōda (Takeo's mother)

Suzuki made and followed his own training regimen to gain 30 kilograms (more than 60 pounds) of weight to portray the role of the two-meter-tall (6.5-feet-tall), estimated 120-kilogram (260-pound) Takeo Gōda.

Hayato Kawai (Suzuki Sensei) directed the film off Akiko Nogi's (Library War) script. The film premiered in Japanese theaters last October.

The manga also inspired a Spring television anime from the Studio Madhouse.

Kawahara (High School Debut) first debuted the original 100-page version of the story in an issue of Bessatsu Margaret Sister in October 2011, but the manga then returned in Bessatsu Margaret as a serialized work with artist Aruko (Yasuko and Kenji) in April 2012.

The series won Best Shojo Manga at the 37th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2013. Additionally, the series topped the list of Manga for Female Readers in the 2013 edition of the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook.