The manga follows a naive boy and a scruffy boy in a provincial town in Nagasaki Prefecture in the late 1960s.
The manga inspired a television anime adaptation on Fuji TV’s late-night Noitamina programming block in April 2012.
The official blog for the live-action film adaptation of Yuki Kodama’s Sakamichi no Apollon (Kids on the slope) manga revealed additional cast members for the film on Friday.
However, on his first day at this new school, he meets a boy and begins a new direction in life.