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Bump of Chicken to Perform 1st Live-Action Parasyte Film's Ending Song
posted on by Kyle Cardine
Comic Natalie reported on Thursday that BUMP OF CHICKEN (live-action Gatchaman, Always Zoku San-chōme no Yūhi) will perform the ending theme "Parade" for the first of the two live-action film adaptations of Hitoshi Iwaaki's Parasyte (Kiseiju) science-fiction horror manga.
Shōta Sometani (live-action xxxHOLiC, All Esper Dayo!) will star in the films as Shinichi Izumi, Eri Fukatsu (Onnanoko Monogatari) will play Ryōko Tamiya, and Ai Hashimoto (Blood-C: The Last Dark, live-action Another, Sadako 3D) will play Satomi Murano. The cast will also feature Tadanobu Asano as Gotō, Masahiro Higashide as Hideo Shimada, Miko Yoki as Nobuko Izumi, Jun Kunimura as Hirama, Kazuki Kitamura as Takeshi Hirokawa, Hirofumi Arai as Uragami, Pierre Taki as Miki, and Nao Ōmori as Kuramori. Sadao Abe will also star as the voice of Migi.
Takashi Yamazaki (live-action Space Battleship Yamato, Always: Sunset on Third Street) is directing the films. Ryūta Kosawa (Always: Sunset on Third Street, Shōnen H) is writing the films' scripts. The first film is slated to open in Japan on November 29, and the second film will open in 2015.
The manga also received a television anime adaptation which premiered on NTV earlier this month. Crunchyroll is streaming the series as it airs in Japan.
