Alice Hirose Stars in Live-Action Please Save My Earth Drama on Prime Video
The beloved 1986 manga gets its first live-action drama, with the original author supervising the script and a director who long wanted to adapt it.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, Cinema Today.
Alice Hirose will star in the Prime Original drama Please Save My Earth, the live-action adaptation of Saki Hiwatari's sci-fi shoujo manga. Takahiro Miki directs. The series streams worldwide on Prime Video in fall 2027. Hirose plays Mokuren, a moon base team member holding the story's secrets.
Alice Hirose takes the role of Mokuren, a key member of the moon base team who carries the story's secrets. The character deeply loves her companions while hiding a major secret, and her existence shakes the fates of Arisu and the others in the present world.
Director Takahiro Miki, known for It's a Summer Film: Here to Say Goodbye and The Last Song You Left, has long cited this work when asked which manga he wanted to adapt. He said he wants to depict the story with the visual beauty and emotion that only live-action can express.
Creator Saki Hiwatari said she was surprised the drama would be made in this era and has been involved in a supervisory capacity up to the script stage.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.