'Back Street Girls' Gets Live-Action Adaptation

A live-action film adapting Jasmine Gyuh's Back Street Girls manga was announced by Toei on Monday. Titled Back Street Girls: Gokudolls (Back Street Girls: Yakuza Idols), the film will premiere in Japanese theaters on February 8, 2019.

Keinosuke Hara (Watashi no Jinsei Nanoni) is directing the film, with scripts by Shoichiro Masumoto (Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou: The Movie) and Hidehiro Itou (Osaka Hamlet). The cast include Jin Shirasu, Reiya Masaki, Masato Hanazawa, Natsumi Okamoto, Ruka Matsuda, Akane Sakanoue, Tetsuya Sugaya, Nana Asakawa, Hitoshi Ozawa, Dori Sakurada, Ren Osugi, and Kouichi Iwaki.

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Back Street Girls was serialized in Weekly Young Magazine between March 2015 and September 2018. Kodansha published the 11th compiled volume on June 6. A TV anime adaptation by J.C.Staff aired this summer for ten episodes.

Source: Comic Natalie