The comic book “Takagi-san who is good at teasing people” (からかい上手の高木さん) by cartoonist Soichiro Yamamoto has been adapted into a live-action Japanese drama. It will be broadcast on TBS TV station and Netflix in March 2024. It can also be watched through Netflix in overseas areas. Taiwan is officially The broadcast time shall be subject to the announcement of the platform.
The official list of production team and protagonist actors will be released simultaneously. The actor Kurokawa Sōya (born in 2009) in the male lead “Nishikata” is the actor in Kore-eda Hirokazu’s film “Monster” Minato Mugino, and the female lead “Takagi” is played by Tsukishima Ryui (born in 2008). Girls’ trend magazine “Seventeen” exclusive model.
Tsukishima Ryui Kurokawa Sōya
Like the original work, the live-action version was filmed in Shodoshima, Kagawa Prefecture.
The story centers on the interaction between Nishikata, an ordinary male junior high school student, and Takagi, a female classmate sitting next to him (The Passion of Nishikata). The eccentric Takagi often teases Nishikata around, although Nishikata tries to trick Nishikata back, but in the end he always fails.
The original manga “Takagi-kun who is good at playing tricks on people” will be published in the November issue of Monthly Shōnen Sunday, which will be released on October 12, ending the 10-year serialization. The TV animation adaptation will be launched in January 2018, with the second season in July 2019, the third season in January 2022, and a theatrical animation in June 2022.
The production team of the live-action version of “Takagi-san who is good at teasing people”
Edited by: Tomoki Kanazawa, Jun Hagimori, Rikiya Imaizumi
Producer: Yuki Osawa, Masayuki Morikawa (Fine Entertainment)
Director: Rikiya Imaizumi
actor
Takagi: Ryui Tsukishima
Nishikata: Soya Kurokawa