The staff for Higanjima Deluxe, the second live-action film of Kōji Matsumoto’s Higanjima manga, revealed on Monday that Minami Sakurai has been cast in the film as the character Yuki.
The original 33-volume Higanjima manga also inspired a live-action film in 2010.
Yuki is a childhood friend of Akira (Shunya Shiraishi), and comes to Higanjima with companions to save Atsushi (Ryohei Suzuki).
Matsumoto launched the Higanjima: 48-Nichigo… (Nirvana Island: 48 Days Later…) sequel manga in August 2014, and Kodansha published the seventh volume on June 6.