A Shochiku began showing this teaser trailer for the live-action film adaptation of the manga Akabane Honeko no Bodyguard (Honeko Akabane’s Bodyguards) in Masamitsu Nigatsu. Below you can see a promotional image.
With its premiere scheduled for August 2nd, the direction is Junichi Ishikawa (Princess Jellyfish, Fragile, Innai Keisatsu live-action series) with a script by Hiroyuki Yatsu.
In the cast we have:
- Raul (of the Snow Man) as Arakuni Ibuki.
- Natsuki Deguchi as Akabane Honeko
- Daiken Okudaira as Sumihiko Somejima
- Hikaru Takahashi as Nei Togeya
The manga began publication in September 2022 with illustrations and a story by Masamitsu Nigatsu.
Honeko Akabane is an ordinary high school student. The daughter of a lawyer, she just wants to live a normal life – even if it means scolding her childhood friend, the always violent Ibuki Arakuni, whenever he gets into fights with random people.
However, Ibuki keeps a secret that only he knows – Honeko was adopted by her current parents and is actually the illegitimate daughter of a yakuza leader. It turns out that the boss is retiring and many people in her gang are wanting to take her place; since Honeko is her heir, they want to kill her to tie up any loose ends.
And so Ibuki must protect Honeko from a variety of criminals, without letting her know about her true parentage. Can he act as her bodyguard and, at the same time, keep her unaware of her situation?
