Kurosagi
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| The Black Swindler | |||
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 Volume 1 Cover |
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| クロサギ (Kurosagi) |
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| Genre | Suspense, Action | ||
| Manga | |||
| Author | Takeshi Natsuhara | ||
| Illustrator | Kuromaru | ||
| Publisher |  Shogakukan |
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| Demographic | Seinen | ||
| Magazine | Weekly Young Sunday | ||
| Original run | November 2003 – ongoing | ||
| Volumes | 17 | ||
| TV drama | |||
| Director | Yasuharu Ishii, Shunichi Hirano, Atsushi Takei | ||
| Writer | Takeshi Natsuhara | ||
| Network | TBS | ||
| Original run | April 14, 2006 – June 23, 2006 | ||
| Episodes | 11 | ||
The Black Swindler (クロサギ Kurosagi?) is a Japanese manga writen by Takeshi Natsuhara and illustratored by Kuromaru. The series is about a boy named Kurosaki who swindles only other professional swindlers known as shirosagi (シロサギ?). It won the 2008 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga[1]
The series was adapted as an 11-episode TV drama that was aired on TBS from 14 April 2006 to 23 June 2006. On March 8, 2008, Kurosagi the Movie with Yamashita Tomohisa starring as the Black Swindler once again, was released.
[edit] Cast
- Yamashita Tomohisa as Kurosaki (Kurosagi)
- Horikita Maki as Yoshikawa Tsurara
- Ichikawa Yui as Mishima Yukari
- Kato Koji as Shiraishi Yoichi
- Yamazaki Tsutomu as Katsuragi Toshio
- Kishibe Shiro as Mikimoto
- Tayama Ryosei as Momoyama Tetsuji
- Reina as Osawa Yuuko
- Okunuki Kaoru as Hayasa
- Sugimoto Tetta as Kurosaki's Father
- Aikawa Sho as Kashima Masaru
[edit] References
- ^ 小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者 (Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved on 2008-01-22.
[edit] External links
- Official Website of Movie (Japanese)
- Official Website of Drama (Japanese)
- Official Website of Manga (Japanese)
- Kurosagi (manga) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
