The project is City Hunter manga creator Tsukasa Hojo’s debut as chief director for a live-action film.
Hojo’s City Hunter manga recently inspired both the City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes anime film from Sunrise, and the Nicky Larson et le Parfum de Cupidon (Nicky Larson and the Cupid’s Purfume) French live-action film.
Hojo also drew the City Hunter spinoff manga Angel Heart, which debuted in 2001 in Shinchosha’s Comic Bunch magazine.
The announcement describes the film as love stories based on submissions to North Star Pictures’ Monthly Comic Zenon’s Silent Manga Audition, along with an original story by Hojo himself.