Toho has released a 30-second teaser trailer for the forthcoming live-action film adaptation of Kiminori Wakasugi’s (Detroit Metal City) comedy manga KAPPEI to introduce its main cast members, including 46-year-old Hideaki Ito (Shokichi Komachi in the Terraformars live-action film) as the title character, Kappei.
Following Wakasugi’s most successful work Detroit Metal City, KAPPEI was serialized in Hakusensha’s Young Animal from 2011 to 2014, then compiled in six tankobon volumes.
Ito says, “To put it bluntly, this is a strange story with strange costumes, strange hairstyles, and strange people, except for the heroine.