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Haruna Kawaguchi to Star in Live-Action Zekkyō Gakkyū Film

Actress shōjo manga. The film will adapt the "Yomi no Shinjitsu" (Yomi's Truth) story from volume 3 and the "Ningen Rank" (Human Rank) story from volume 8.

Mizuki Yamamoto (The Kirishima Thing) will also star in the film.

Kawaguchi plays Kana, a girl who was the idol of her class in elementary school, but after entering a private girls middle school is ranked as average in grades, athletic ability, and parentage. An urban legend at the school states that anyone who finds Yomi (played by Yamamoto) at an old school building can ask her for a wish. Yomi will grant the wish, but only in exchange for something important. Kana goes to Yomi to wish to change her situation, and the next day Kana is accepted into the group of popular girls, but in exchange her friend starts being bullied. Hirose will play the popular girl Rio.

Ishikawa's original manga follows a ghost girl named Yomi as she tells the reader various scary stories. Ishikawa began serializing the series in October 2008 and the 13th collected volume will ship in Japan on February 15. The series already AKB48, as well as several anime promotional videos. The series currently has 1.2 million copies in print.

The film is scheduled to open in Japan in early summer.

Source: Mainich Shimbun's Mantan Web