Otsuichi's "Goth" comes to the big screen

by Chris MaGee

Horror and mystery author Otsuichi, best known to North American audiences for having his work adapted into the 2005 omnibus film "Zoo" will be getting another big screen treatment this December with Gen Takahashi's "Goth". Based on the author's 2003 Honkaku Mystery Prize-winning novel of the same name the film will star Kanata Hongo (left) and Rin Takanashi (right) as a pair of morbid teens with a nearly all consuming fascination with suicide and murder. "Goth" has already been adapted into a manga by artist Kendi Oiwa which was released in an English translation from TokyoPop earlier this year.

Thanks to Tokyograph for the story.