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Live-Action Solitary Gourmet Film Opens in Taiwan on March 14

Taiwanese film distributor Cai Chang Asia began streaming a Chinese-subtitled trailer for the live-action film of Masayuki Kusumi and Jiro Taniguchi's Kodoku no Gourmet (Solitary Gourmet) manga on Tuesday. The trailer reveals that the film will open in Taiwan on March 14.

The film opened in Japan on January 10. The film sold 167,000 tickets and earned 242 million yen (about US$1.53 million) in its first three days. The film also screened at the Tokyo International Film Festival, which ran from October 28 to November 6 last year.

The film is based on the manga's live-action series. The series' lead actor Yutaka Matsushige again stars in the film, and also directed the film. He also co-wrote alongside Yoshihiro Taguchi.

The film is part of the Kodoku no Gourmet Project, which celebrates the series' 12 years of broadcast and TV Tokyo's 60th anniversary. The staff also announced Sorezore no Kodoku no Gourmet (To Each Their Own Solitary Gourmet), a program that debuted on October 4 last year. The omnibus series follows various main characters (besides Yutaka Matsushige's Gorō, who was the main character in all the previous projects) on their own culinary journeys.

Both the Kodoku no Gourmet live-action series and original manga follow a solitary salesman named Gorō Inagashira as he travels all over Japan and samples the local cuisine found on street corners. The live-action show's 10th season premiered in October 2022.

Source: Cai Chang Asia's YouTube channel