Publisher Futushaba has announced that a screen adaptation of Naoyuki Ochiai’s Crime and Punishment: A Falsified Romance manga has now been approved. Ochiai’s manga is an updated interpretation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1866 novel Crime and Punishment.

In Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s original Crime and Punishment novel classic, a poor student struggles with his decision to kill a pawnbroker and the resulting consequences, while the rest of society reveal themselves in how they react to the crime. Ochiai re-visualizes the story by putting a young hikikomori (shut-in introvert) man and an enkō (paid dating partner) girl at the center of the crime in modern-day Japan. A college dropout named Miroku Tachi meets a high school girl named Risa and devises a terrible plan.

Futashaba however, has not specified whether the film will be animated or live-action straight-to-video or theatrical. More information about this screen adaptation is expected to be revealed in the near future.

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