The official website of the upcoming live-action film adaptation of Hikaru Nakamura’s Black Night Parade unveiled a new trailer for the film on Nov 10, 2022.

The trailer also previews the theme song of the live-action film. Eve will be performing the theme song Toy’s Factory.

Black Night Parade live-action film is set to release in Japan on Dec 23, 2022.

Cast of the film includes:

• Ryo Yoshizawa as Miharu Hino
• Taishi Nakagawa as Kaizer Tanaka
• Kanna Hashimoto as Shino Hojo
•  Keisuke Watanabe as Teppei Kohira

The film will be directed by Yuichi Fukuda. Fukuda will also serve as the scriptwriter along with Tetsuo Kamada. The movie will be distributed by TOHO.

Black Night Parade will be the second work of Hikaru Nakamura that director Yuichi Fukuda is adapting into a live-action film, after Saint Young Men.

The official website also put out comments of the main cast members.

Hikaru Nakamura’s Black Night Parade manga was serialized in Weekly Young Jump from 2016- 2019. The series continued its publication in Shueisha’s Ultra Jump magazine on Sep 19, 2019.

As of Dec 2021, seven tankōbon volumes have been released.

The official website describes the plot as:

Miharu Hino (Ryo Yoshizawa) is a dull man who has been working part-time at the Pawson Nerima North Exit convenience store for three years. While the world is in the mood for Christmas, a man in a black Santa suit suddenly says to him, “I have a job offer! I’m looking forward to working with you from today onward.

When he wakes up, he finds himself in a mysterious company, Santa Claus House, at the North Pole!

Children’s letters arrive from all over the world, piles of presents are piled up, and a large number of black Santas are dressed in black Santa suits.
Together with his colleagues Shino Hojo (Kanna Hashimoto), Emperor Tanaka (Taishi Nakagawa), and Teppei Kodaira (Keisuke Watanabe), all of whom have strong personalities, they start working as Black Santas who distribute gifts to children all over the world.

But there is a secret behind the company… And then comes the crisis of Christmas!
Can Miharu and his friends bring happiness to the children of the world on Christmas night?

Source: Official Website