This year’s 15th issue of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine announced on Monday that Erika Sawajiri (live-action Helter Skelter, Shinjuku Swan) will play Tomoko Tada in the live-action film adaptation of Yūya Kanzaki and Arata Miyatsuki’s Funōhan (Impossibility Defense) manga.
The manga inspired a live-action television series that premiered in January 2015.
Kanzaki and Miyatsuki launched the manga in Shueisha’s Grand Jump magazine in 2013.