CLAMP’s “xxxHOLIC” will receive a Live Action adaptation
Shochiku and ASMIK Ace announced on Tuesday that they are producing a live-action film adaptation of CLAMP‘s xxxHOLiC manga that will open in Japan on April 29. Ryunosuke Kamiki plays Kimihiro Watanuki, while Kou Shibasaki will play Yūko Ichihara. Mika Ninagawa (live-action Sakuran, Helter Skelter) is directing the film, with a script by Erika Yoshida.
CLAMP serialized the original xxxHOLiC manga in Kodansha‘s Weekly Young Magazine and Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine from 2003 to 2011, although it was renamed xxxHOLiC: Rō in 2009. xxxHOLiC: Rei is the latest manga that launched in 2013. The franchise spawned an anime film, two television anime seasons, and several original video anime projects.
The mystery supernatural manga ran periodically in Weekly Young Magazine from February 2003 to March 2010 before transferring to Bessatsu Shounen Magazine in June 2010 under the title xxxHolic: Rou and concluding in February 2011. Kodansha published the manga in 19 volumes between July 2003 and March 2011.
