Kami no Shizuku Manga's Korean Drama Plans Delayed
The chosun llbo newspaper and other Korean media sorece are reporting on Tuesday that the Korean Live Action Drama adaption plans of Tadashi Agi and Shuu Okimoto's Kami no Shizuku (Les Gouttes de Dieu/The Drops Of God) wine manga have been delayed. Bae Yoog Joon, the actor who became a household name in South Korea and Japan with this starring role in the winter Sonata (Fuyu no Sonata) drama, had been tentatively slated to star in this drama late last year as his next project. The original manga follows a young man's quest to identify the twelve wines described in his late father's will.
The Chosun llbo reports that a representative a Bae said that he is pursuing project for now. Key East, Bae's production company, had signed an agreement with the japanese publisher kodansha for the Korean drama adaptation right in 2008. However, the drama plans were held up by Korean regulations on product placement for the various real-life wine brands that would have appeared in drama.
Kimi no Shizuku writer Agi's family members are big fan of Bae, and Agi had actually modeled Kimi no Shizuku's young wine critic character, Issei Toumine, in Bae. The manga has been running in Kodansha's Morning magazine since 2004. The manga has been so populer in japan, South Korea, and Taiwan and other Asian Countries.
A separate live-action Japanese drama adaptation of Kimi no Shizuku premired in Japan January 2009.Bae and his winter Sonata co-star Choi Ji Woo are reprising their roles in the Korean /Japanese animated film version of the Winter Sonata drama.
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