Otomo To Direct Live Action Mushishi

According to Anime News Service, Akira and Steamboy director Katsuhiro Otomo will helm a live action film adaptation of Yuki Urushibara’s award winning supernatural fantasy manga series Mushishi. The film is scheduled for Japanese release in winter 2006. Mushishi will be Otomo’s second live action film. Otomo directed the live action film World Apartment Horror in 1991.