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Live-Action I Am a Hero Film Opens in Singapore on October 20
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Singaporean cinema chain Shaw Theatres began streaming an English-subtitled trailer for the live-action film of Kengo Hanazawa's best-selling zombie manga I am a Hero on Tuesday. The video reveals that Shaw Theatres will open the film in Singapore on October 20.
The film opened in Japan on April 23.
The film premiered at the 48th Sitges Film Festival in Catalonia, Spain last October, and it won the Grand Audience Award and Award for Best Special Effects.
The film won the Audience Award and the Jury Prize in the Orient Express section at Portugal's Fantasporto - Oporto International Film Festival awards in March. It also won the Grand Prize (the Golden Raven) at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF) in the same month.
Shinsuke Satō (Gantz, Library War, Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror, Princess Blade) directed the "A-grade survival panic horror" movie. Akiko Nogi (Library War, Sayonara, Robinson Crusoe) wrote the screenplay, and VFX and makeup expert Makoto Kamiya (Gantz, Cutie Honey, Resident Evil: Degeneration, Resident Evil: Damnation) was in charge of special effects.
In the original manga, Hideo Suzuki (played by Yō Ōizumi in the live-action film) is an aspiring manga creator who once struggled with discontent with his assistant artist job and his relationship with his girlfriend — until people started turning into undead "ZQN" creatures overnight. After he is attacked by his ZQN virus-infected girlfriend "Tekko," Hideo flees the overrun Tokyo metropolis with the shotgun he happens to own as a hobby. He travels with Hiromi (played by Kasumi Arimura), a high school girl whom he meets by chance, and they face the desperate situation with the help of a nurse named Yabu (played by Masami Nagasawa) at a shopping mall.
Hanazawa launched the manga in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits magazine in 2009. Shogakukan released the manga's 20th compiled book volume on April 12. Its compiled book volumes have over 4 million copies in print. An NHK television program revealed in March that the manga was approaching its climax, but did not provide a definitive date for the manga's conclusion.
[Via AFA]
