Live Action Adaptation of Death Notice: Ikigami Manga
MVM are preparing to release the live-action adaptation of Mase Motoro’s Death Notice: Ikigami manga. Amazon have listed its release for the 7th of March priced at £11.99.
Synopsis
The film is set in a dystopian future where, due to the laziness and apathy of people, the Japanese government decided that every child should be injected with a lethal nano-capsule that will ensure death within 24 hours when activated. Who will die? People between the ages of 18 and 24 are randomly selected but prior to their termination, the person chosen is warned within 24 hours’ by an Ikigami, “death notice” allowing them time to say goodbye and accept their fate and others to realise just how precious life is.
Kengo Fujimoto is a young civil-servant who delivers these notices but after getting involved in the lives of the recipients questions his role.
