You ever wonder if manga fans in Japan get as riled up as their comic book counterparts do here in the West? How many fans yell out 'Baka' [stupid] versus 'Sugoi' [cool]? Something to ponder... anyways-
Another day, another manga adaptation to announce. Today it is the horror manga Higanjima, 'the manga is named after a fictional island where the brother of the main character (Akira Miyamoto) went missing two years ago. Miyamoto leads a search party of friends to the island and discovers that there are vampires and other creatures lurking on it.'
Volcano High director Tae-Gyun Kim is directing the film. It will mark his return to genre cinema since doing VH. And Japanese scribe Tetsuya Oishi, responsible for the scripts for the Death Note films is handling the adaptation of the original text.
There has been no word on the cast but the project is targeted for a Summer 2009 release.