Mori no Asagao Movie Announced

Manga Action magazine has announced that Mamora Goda’s award winning manga drama Mori no Asagao will be adapted into a live action feature film by director Jiro Shono (Beautiful Life). The 2004 and ongoing story about a friendship that develops between a rookie prison guard and a death row inmate won the manga grand prize of the 11th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2007.

Source: Anime News Network