NHK announced on Monday that it is producing a live-action series adaptation of Jiro Taniguchi’s The Walking Man is starring as the story’s unnamed protagonist.
Aside from The Walking Man, Ponent Mon and Fanfare previously published Taniguchi’s The Summit of the Gods, A Zoo in Winter, A Distant Neighborhood, The Ice Wanderer, The Times of Botchan, The Guardians of the Louvre, Furari, Venice and Quest for the Missing Girl.
The Walking Man does as he strolls at random through urban Japan – often silent, often alone – with his vivid dreams that let time stand still.
His Kodoku no Gourmet manga has also inspired a long-running live-action series, which premiered its eighth and most recent season last October.