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Shigeru Mizuki's Ghost Stories Get Live-Action Drama Special
posted on by Karen Ressler
2-hour special on August 31 to feature 4 stories
A live-action drama adaptation special of four of Bin Shimada) who will navigate and tie together the different stories.
The stories include:
- "Sunakake Babaa" (Sand-throwing Hag) is based off of the Sand-throwing Hag character found in Mizuki's Kento Hayashi).
- "Yōkai Makuragaeshi" (Pillow-returning Gaku Hamada and Reina Triendle will star.
- "Fushichō o Kau Otoko" (The Man who Kept a Phoenix as a Shirō Sano plays the author's house guest, who carries the bird cage.
- "Einin no Tsubo" is based on a short story from 1961 about a mother (Kana Kurashina) who goes looking for a jar that will cure her dying son's illness.
Comic Natalie has more screenshots posted at its website.
Mizuki is best Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths manga.
Image © Fuji TV
Source: Comic Natalie