Assassination Classroom (live-action)

An upcoming live-action film adaptation of Yusei Matsui's Assassination Classroom manga will be released in Japan on March 21, 2015.

The tagline for the film is "Well, everyone, it's time (or a class) to assassinate."

Production
The live action film is currently in development, which is directed by Eiichirō Hasumi. The filming was scheduled to began in August 31. According to the film's Twitter account, most of shooting parts of class 3-E's student casts have already finished by October 10. However, post-production of the film, which is related to CGI-created Korosensei still has a lot of work to do.

Casts
On August 27 that, a member of boys idol group Hey! Say! JUMP, Ryosuke Yamada, 21 years old, will play Nagisa Shiota in the upcoming film. Yamada is also best for his role as Hajime Kindaichi in TV drama live-action adaptation of the manga, Kindaichi Case Files, The Files of Young Kindaichi Neo.

Besides that, some batch of the casts were announced on the same day. Later, four more casts were revealed in the film Twitter account.

On October 22th, it was revealed that former member of the K-pop unit KARA, Kang Ji-young was casted as Irina Jelavic for this film. This is her debut for acting a film.


 * The list of the casts
 * Ryosuke Yamada as Nagisa Shiota
 * Masaki Suda as Karma Akabane
 * Maika Yamamoto as Kaede Kayano
 * Seika Taketomi as Rio Nakamura
 * Mio Yuuki as Yukiko Kanzaki
 * Miku Uehara as Manami Okuda
 * Kippei Shiina as Tadaomi Karasuma
 * Kouki Osamura as Taiga Okajima
 * Takumi Ooka as Ryunosuke Chiba
 * Saki Takahashi as Hinata Okano
 * Yuuhi Kato as Yuuma Isogai
 * Kang Ji-young as Irina Jelavic
 * Wakana Aoi as Ayaka Saitou (live action-original character)