Prince of tennis Live-action movie

The Prince of Tennis (film)
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The Prince of Tennis (テニスの王子様 Tennis no Ōjisama) live-action movie is adapted from the The Prince of Tennis manga series. It condenses the storyline from when the audience is first introduced to Ryoma to the Hyotei arc. The film was directed by Yuichi Abe and was released in Japan on May 13, 2006.

Alterations from the Anime/Manga
The movie is a condensed version of the manga and anime series, thus a lot of the events that happen are condensed and characters were changed.

• For instance, the character of Sumire Ryuzaki's age was changed so that instead of being a grandmother (and Nanjiroh's junior middle school coach), she became a year younger than Nanjiroh and became a former junior middle school student with him.
  
• In the movie, the character of Wakashi Hiyoshi from the Hyotei school was replaced by Egate Mcleod Higaki, whereas in the manga/anime, there was no Egate Mcleod Higaki, he was created as an original character for the movie.
  
• Similarly, Egate Mcleod Higaki's sister, Shioin Higaki, is also an original character that was not in the manga/anime series. Her purpose in the movie is to pretty much serve as the anime/manga character, Sakuno Ryuzaki.
  
• In the movie, the Oishi/Kikumaru pair takes on the Oshitari/Mukahi pair, while originally it was the Momoshiro/Kikumaru pair who did so. Additionally, they lose and the Inui/Kaidoh pair win for Seigaku, while in the manga the opposite happened.
  
• The entire prefectural tournament, along with the matches against St. Rudolph and Yamabuki, are skipped over.