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Live-Action Blue Lock Film Opens in Singapore on September 24
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Singapore cinema chain Golden Village and film distributor Purple Plan announced last Friday that they will open the live-action film based on Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yūsuke Nomura's BLUE LOCK soccer manga in Singapore on September 24.
The film opened in Japan on August 7. The film ranked at #8 in its opening weekend, and earned 277,648,800 yen (about US$1.74 million) in its first three days.
Yūsuke Taki directed the film, and Tetsuo Kamata wrote the screenplay. Shinzō Matsuhashi served as a producer. CREDEUS (live-action Golden Kamuy film) produced the film, and TOHO is distributing.
Kaneshiro and Nomura launched the manga in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in August 2018. Kodansha will publish the manga's 40th compiled book volume on August 17. The manga won the Best Shōnen Manga award in Kodansha's 45th annual Manga Awards in 2021. Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the manga in English digitally and is also releasing it in print.
The original manga inspired a television anime series that premiered in Japan in October 2022 on TV Asahi and its affiliates in the NUMAnimation programming block. The anime ran for 24 episodes. Animax Asia aired a simulcast of the anime as it aired in Japan.
The anime film of Kōta Sannomiya's BLUELOCK -Episode Nagi- spinoff manga premiered in Japan in April 2024. The film sold 337,000 tickets to earn 463 million yen (about US$2.99 million) in its first three days, and ranked at #2 in the Japanese box office in its opening weekend. MediaLink opened the film in various Southeast Asian territories.
BLUE LOCK vs. U-20 JAPAN, the second television anime season, debuted in October 2024, and aired for 14 episodes. Ani-One Asia streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.
The anime is getting a third season, adapting the "Shin Eiyū Taisen" (New Hero Wars) story.
