The manga follows a naive boy and a scruffy boy in a provincial town in Nagasaki Prefecture in the late 1960s.
Shogakukan opened a website on Friday to confirm that a live-action film adaptation of Yuki Kodama’s Sakamichi no Apollon (Kids on the slope) manga has been green-lit.
The film is slated to open in 2018.
Takahiro Miki (live-action Solanin, Aozora Yell) is directing the film, and Izumi Takahashi (live-action Solanin, Museum) is writing the script.