The survival zombie-esque manga, I Am A Hero looks like it is getting the big screen treatment in 2015. The story is set in a modern-day Japan attacked by an infectious disease which turns people into carnivorous ghouls called “ZQN.” It isn’t clear if they are actual zombies but they are close enough to make this one sound like a must watch for fans of imports!
41-year-old actor You Oizumi plays the protagonist Hideo Suzuki who works as a manga assistant. Luckily for him, he has a shotgun for clay target shooting which helps him to survive the apocalyptic situation. Oizumi is known as Nezumi Otoko in the live-action adaptation films of Shigeru Mizuki’s horror manga GeGeGe no Kitaro, and also voiced in several anime films including Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away (2001), The Cat Returns (2002), and Howl’s Moving Castle (2004). 21-year-old actress
Kazumi Arimura, who will voice the protagonist character Marnie in Studio Ghibli’s 2014 summer film When Marnie Was There, will join the cast as a high school girl Hiromi Hayakari, with 26-year-old Masami Nagasawa as a nurse named Yabu.
Shinsuke Sato (GANTZ, Library Wars) directs the film with a script by Akiko Nogi (Library Wars). Makoto Kamiya (Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-out Attack, Japan Sinks) works on special effects. The shooting is scheduled to begin in early June and finish in August.
