School-Live! (film)

School-Live! (Japanese: がっこうぐらし!, Hepburn: Gakkō Gurashi!) is a 2019 Japanese horror film and adaptation of the manga series by Norimitsu Kaihō. A live-action film adaptation of School-Live! was announced in the January 2018 issue of Manga Time Kirara Forward in November 2017,[1][2] and it was released by Universal Pictures under the Regents label in Japan on January 25, 2019.[3][4] The film is directed by Issei Shibata and starred the members of the idol group Last Idol.[5]

School-Live!
Japaneseがっこうぐらし!
HepburnGakkō Gurashi!
Directed byIssei Shibata
Produced byToshinori Yamaguchi
Written byIssei Shibata
Based onSchool-Live!
by Norimitsu Kaihō
Starring
  • Midori Nagatsuki
  • Nanami Abe
  • Wakana Majima
  • Rio Kiyohara
  • Nonoka Ono
  • Daichi Kaneko
Music byShu Kanematsu
CinematographyKazuaki Yoshizawa
Edited bySagara Naoichiro
Production
company
Dub Inc.
Distributed byUniversal Pictures (Under the Regents Label)
Release date
  • January 25, 2019 (2019-01-25)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Premise

Kurumi Ebisuzawa (Nanami Abe), Yuki Takeya (Midori Nagatsuki), Yūri Wakasa (Wakana Majima) and Miki Naoki (Rio Kiyohara) attend the same high school in Japan, but they also know one another because they reside in the school's dormitory. The school girls are having fun until a zombie outbreak occurs, infecting the school population. The 4 girls must now learn to survive in this new world.

Cast
  • Midori Nagatsuki as Yuki Takeya
  • Nanami Abe as Kurumi Ebisuzawa
  • Wakana Majima as Yūri Wakasa
  • Rio Kiyohara as Miki Naoki
  • Nonoka Ono as "Megu-nee" Megumi Sakura
  • Daichi Kaneko as Tsumugi Katsuragi

Reception

Althrough getting mixed reactions by fans and japanese audiences, School-Live got mediocre reviews by western people. Matt Schley from Japan Times gave the film a 1.5 out of 5 citing: "Being aggressively boring, in fact, is the greatest sin of “School-Live” The principle that each scene of a film should push the story forward is discarded with abandon."

Audience gave the film an average grade of 5.5/10 on IMDb.

References
  1. "School-Live! Manga Gets Live-Action Film". Anime News Network. November 21, 2017. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
  2. "Live-Action School-Live! Film Is Slated for 2018". Anime News Network. November 23, 2017. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
  3. "Live-Action School-Live! Film's Visual Reveals January Opening". Anime News Network. September 20, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  4. "Live-Action School-Live! Film Reveals Visual, January 25 Opening". Anime News Network. December 4, 2018. Retrieved December 5, 2018.
  5. "Live-Action School-Live! Film Casts 'Last Idol' Group". Anime News Network. December 14, 2017. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
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