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Live Action Maestro Film's Trailer, Poster Unveiled

posted on by Rachel Mahoney
Adaptation of Akira Saso's manga about group of musicians opens on January 31

Japanese entertainment news site Natalie began streaming a new trailer and posted a new poster image for the live-action film adaptation of Akira Saso's Maestro manga on Friday. The trailer highlights the concert scenes with 800 actors (including extras).

The story begins when a group of musicians looking for new work gather at a practice room. There, they find the mysterious conductor Tendō. Although these prospective members are put off at first by this man's unknown origins and background, his unorthodox leadership guides them past their individual emotional issues and setbacks and gradually restores their confidence.

A teaser trailer was streamed in August.

Tori Matsuzaka (Gatchaman, .hack//The Movie , live-action Kyō, Koi o Hajimemasu, Samurai Sentai Shinkenger) will star in the film, and he will co-star for the first time with Toshiyuki Nishida (Tsuri Baka Nisshi films, live-action Space Battleship Yamato, A Letter to Momo). Matsuzaka will play Kōsaka, a brilliant concert master, while Nishida will play the mysterious conductor Tendō.

Shōtarō Kobayashi is directing the film. The film will mark the first project that requires Matsuzaka and Nishida to perform a musical instrument and conduct an orchestra, respectively. Matsuzaka acknowledged that this is the first time he touched a violin, and he felt both joy and fear over this fresh new challenge. The film will also star singer miwa as a flute player. Famed Japanese conductor Yutaka Sado and pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii will make cameos in the film. Tsujii also composed the film's theme song.

The film will open in Japan on January 31.

Saso launched the manga in Futabasha's Manga Action magazine in 2003, but later moved it to the Futabasha Web Magazine site. He finished the manga in 2007, and Futabasha published the third and final compiled book volume in 2008. Saso won an Excellence Prize at the 12th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2008 for Maestro, and the same manga earned him a nomination in the 13th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize a year later.

Source: Comic Natalie


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