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Let's Go Karaoke! Live-Action Film Reveals 2 Main Cast Members
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website for the live-action film of Yama Wayama's Let's Go Karaoke! (Karaoke Iko!) manga revealed the film's two main cast members on Friday.
Jun Saitō (left in image above) will play middle school student Satomi Oka, while Gō Ayano will play yakuza member Kyouji Narita.
The film will open in 2023. Nobuhiro Yamashita (Linda Linda Linda, live-action Cream Lemon film) is directing the film, with a script by Akiko Nogi (INU-OH, Library Wars, live-action I am a Hero film).
Yen Press licensed the manga and released the manga on May 24. Yen Press describes the manga:
Nothing worries Satomi Oka more than the upcoming final choir competition of his middle school career—right up until he is accosted by a stranger from the shadows who demands, “Let's go karaoke!” As a yakuza, Kyouji Narita doesn't scare easily, but a terrifying prospect has driven him to seek Satomi's help. The boss is holding a karaoke contest, with the loser forced to get a tattoo to be selected and torturously applied by the boss himself! Oka has been to many vocal rehearsals over the years, but never one-on-one karaoke sessions with a gangster!!
Wayama released the manga as a dōjin publication in 2019, and Kadokawa published it in September 2020. The manga came in third place for the 14th Manga Taisho awards in 2021. The manga has 500,000 copies in circulation.
Sources: Let's Go Karaoke! live-action film's website, Comic Natalie
