This year’s 25th issue of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is revealing on Monday that Seiichi Tanabe (Kimi wa Pet’s Hasumi Shigehito, NANA 2’s Mr. Kawano) and Yuki Uchida (Kami no Shizuku, Doctor X) will join the cast of the live-action film of Shūichi Asō’s Saiki Kusuo no Psi Nan (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.) manga.
Asō launched the manga series in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2012 after drawing one-shot versions of the story in Weekly Shonen Jump and Jump Next! magazines in 2011.
Tanabe and Uchida will play protagonist Kusuo Saiki’s father and mother Kuniharu Saiki and Kurumi Saiki, respectively.
The manga inspired an anime series that aired within the Oha-Suta (“Good Morning Star”) program beginning last July.