Go Nagai's ABASHIRI FAMILY Coming To The Big Screen! * UPDATED WITH TRAILER *

[The trailer has just been added below the break. It's looking cheeeeeeap.]

One of the best known manga artists in the world today, Japan's Go Nagai has won a horde of fans around the globe thanks to Cutie Honey and he's about to make waves with another cult title hitting the big screen.

"The Abashiri Family" are one of the most notorious mafia family members in the world. Even though their family consists of only five members, just the words "Abashiri Family" strikes fear in other gang members. The head of the mafia clan then decides to send to his cherished only daughter Kikunosuke (Erica Tonooka) to a boarding school. What the father doesn't know is that the boarding school are run by enemies of the Abashiri Family and they have no intentions of graduating their students ...

A live action adaptation of Go's manga has just been completed with Ultraman veteran Teruyoshi Ishii directing from a script by Sadayuki Murai (Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress) and pop starlet Erika Tonooka in the lead. No trailer yet, but it should be coming soon.