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Suicide Notes Laid on the Table Manga Gets Live-Action Film on January 31
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Square Enix confirmed on Monday that Toutarou Minami's Suicide Notes Laid on the Table (Isho, Kōkai.) manga is inspiring a live-action film that will open in Japan on January 31. Tsutomu Hanabusa (live-action Tokyo Revengers, BELA: Humanoid Monster, 3D Kanojo Real Girl) is directing the film off a script by Osamu Suzuki (One Piece Film Z, Jungle Emperor Leo).
The main cast includes The Rampage from Exile Tribe boy band member Hokuto Yoshino as Hiiragi Ikenaga, Ryūbi Miyase as Seiichi Chikage, Sara Shida as Kurumi Hatsukaichi, IMP. idol group member Minato Matsui as Masato Akazaki, Akari Takaishi as Rina Mikado, Miona Hori as Tsubaki Himeyama, and Shūgo Oshinari as Makoto Kaihara. Other cast members include Kaisei Kamimura, Ririka Kawashima, Keiji Arai, Daiki Matsumoto, Yuna Hoshino, Arina Sakakibara, Hinata Tōdō, Hina Kikuchi, Yuriho Ōmine, Tatsumi Asa, Honoka Kanemitsu, Marin Hidaka, Ritsuki Ōhigashi, Miho Kaneno, Sayu Suzukawa, Shunya Asano, Kokoro Aoshima, and Raiku.
The film's staff had previously teased the project without revealing its title in September, then debuted a "ultra-early teaser trailer" that showed all 25 cast members but still did not reveal the title on October 10.
Comikey and Square Enix's Manga UP! are both releasing the manga in English. Manga UP! describes the manga:
Everyone in Class 2-D of Kairei Private Middle School receives an e-mail at the beginning of the school year detailing a “class hierarchy.” But the number one ranked Tsubaki Himeyama clears away the unrest this causes with her sunny disposition. Normalcy returns to the class… until Himeyama is found to have killed herself on campus. And once her classmates return from her funeral, they find suicide notes addressed to them on their desks! Will these notes expose the darkness class 2-D conceals?!
Minami launched the manga in Square Enix's Gangan Joker magazine in 2017. Square Enix published the manga's ninth and final compiled book volume in February 2022.
Manga UP! is also releasing Minami's Birdcage Castle (Torikago no Tsugai) manga in English.
Sources: Suicide Notes Laid on the Table live-action film's website, Comic Natalie
