Warner Bros. Japan began streaming a 15-second commercial for the live-action film of Tow Ubukata’s Jūni-nin no Shinitai Kodomo-tachi (Twelve Children Who Want to Die) novel on Tuesday.
The commercial teases an announcement for the film on November 21.
He won the Eiji Yoshikawa Award for New Writers in 2009 for Tenchi Meisatsu, and the Fūtarō Yamada Award in 2012 for Mitsukuniden.
Yukihiko Tsutsumi (live-action 20th Century Boys, Beck, Ikebukuro West Gate Park) is directing the film, and Yutaka Kuramochi is writing the script.