The manga Hot Road by author Taku Tsumugi is getting a film adaptation in the summer of 2014. The film will star Rena Nonen ( Confessions, Ama-chan ) as Kazuki Miyaichi.
The manga revolves around Kazuki, a girl who feels unloved by her mother because her father died when she was a child. One day, Kazuki is convinced by a friend to meet Hiroko-san, the girlfriend of the leader of the motorcycle gang "NIGHTS". And there, she meets Haruyama… and she begins to feel attracted to a juvenile delinquent.
Tsumugi published the manga in Shueisha's Betsuma magazine between January 1986 and May 1987; Shueisha published four compiled volumes. The manga has 7 million copies in print. Miki Takahiro (Solanin, Bokura ga Ita) is directing the film, with screenplays by Tomoko Yoshida (Kanojo wa Uso o Ai Shisugiteru). Tsumugi is supervising the screenplays.