The film won five awards, including Best Picture of the Year, at the 37th Annual Japan Academy Prizes in March.
This year’s March issue of Shogakukan’s Monthly Flowers magazine announced on Saturday that Akimi Yoshida’s Umimachi Diary manga will get a stage play adaptation.
The manga inspired a 2015 live-action film by famed director Hirokazu Kore-eda that screened with English subtitles under the title Our Little Sister.
The Umimachi Diary (Seaside Town Diary) manga began serialization in Monthly Flowers in 2006, and Shogakukan shipped the seventh compiled volume in January 2016.