Ranma ½ Live Action 2011

• TV Movie: Ranma ½ (Ranma One-Half)
• Romaji: Ranma ½
• Japanese: らんま1/2
• Director: Ryo Nishimura
• Writer: Rumiko Takahashi (manga), Yoshihiro Izumi
• Network: NTV
• Episodes: 1
• Release Date: December 9, 2011
• Runtime: Friday 19:00-20:54
• TV Ratings: 7.9%
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Akane (Yui Aragaki) is the youngest of three daughters for Soun Tendo. Her father Soun Tendo (Katsuhisa Namase) runs a dojo for martial arts. Akane hopes to carry on her father’s dojo into the distant future.

Meanwhile, Akane has been selected to marry Ranma (Kento Kaku), the son of her father’s long time friend Genma (Arata Furuta). Akane and Ranma’s relationship has developed into a love and hate relationship. Also, Ranma isn’t your typical boy. While on a training journey Ranma fell into the Spring of the Drowned Girl and now changes into a women whenever cold water is splashed on him. Warm water will allow him to revert back to a male. Problems arise when Akane’s father declares that the successor to their dojo must be a male. Now, Akane and Ranma (being a man only half of the time) must find a secret spring that can cure him of his curse.

Based on manga series “Ranma ½” by Rumiko Takahashi, published in Weekly Shonen Sunday from 1987 – 1996 (38 volumes).