TokyoGraph reports that 16-year-old actress Kie (properly romanized “Kii”), who also played the lead in the j-dramas LIFE and roles in 14-Year-Old Mother and Junjo Kirari, and who was also the 2005 Miss Magazine Grand Prix winner, has been selected to play the heroine of the previously-announced sequel to the live-action film GeGeGe no Kitarou, who will also be the only human girl of the main cast. Her character is a shy band geek who helps Kitarou “solve a series of mysterious disappearances.” Oh, and Shochiku also mentions that there will be some human/youkai forbidden love. Bow-chicka-bow-wow! The film’s due out in summer ‘08.

By the way, I’m still waiting or someone to pick up the first of these movies. (FUNimation, you already have several of Shochiku’s films thanks to your foreign exchange program, including Vexille, Genghis Khan, and Love and Honor– and Kitarou made $25 million in Japan. What are you waiting for?!)