The official website for WOWOW’s Kinnikuman: The Lost Legend live-action series revealed on Friday that it has cast actress Tina Tamashiro and award-winning director Sion Sono, both of whom will play themselves in the show.
The series is set in 2019, when the Kinnikuman manga inspired the has been cast as the character Warsman in Muscleman.
The show’s story centers around the fictional production of a live-action movie based on Yudetamago’s wrestling superhero manga Kinnikuman.
The manga creator duo known as Yudetamago resumed their original Kinnikuman wrestling manga as a free web manga in 2011.