Live-Action Solitary Gourmet Series Gets Film Co-Written, Helmed by Lead Actor

The staff for the live-action series adaptation of Masayuki Kusumi and Jiro Taniguchi’s Kodoku no Gourmet (Solitary Gourmet) manga announced on Wednesday the series is getting a film directed and co-written by the lead actor Yutaka Matsushige on January 10.

The staff also announced Sorezore no Kodoku no Gourmet (To Each Their Own Solitary Gourmet), a program that will air beginning on October 4.

Both the Kodoku no Gourmet live-action series and original manga follow a solitary salesman named Gorō Inagashira as he travels all over Japan and samples the local cuisine found on street corners.