×
  • remind me tomorrow
  • remind me next week
  • never remind me
Subscribe to the ANN Newsletter • Wake up every Sunday to a curated list of ANN's most interesting posts of the week. read more

News
Live-Action Oboreru Knife Film's Prologue Video Streamed

posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Film based on George Asakura manga opens in Japan on November 5

Japanese film news website Hollywood Channel began streaming a "prologue" video for the the live-action film of George Asakura's Oboreru Knife manga on Wednesday. The clip shows some footage from the film, including the title card, Kōichirō and Natsume swimming on the coast, and a narration by Natsume describing herself.

GAGA Communications previously streamed a music video for the film earlier this month, featuring the film's theme song "Comic Generation" by The Dresscodes, which the band has re-recorded for the movie.

The manga tells the story of Natsume, a sixth-grade girl who has to move from Tokyo to a decidedly different town in the countryside. Upon meeting a boy named Kōichirō there, "something" stirs inside her. The story depicts a "teen heart on the brink of ruin," including the conflict and build-up. The film takes place in the fictional town of Ukigumo, but was filmed in Kumano in Wakayama prefecture.

The film's main cast includes:

Nana Komatsu (live-action Kin Kyori Renai, Bakuman.) as Natsume Mochizuki

Masaki Suda (live-action Setoutsumi, Princess Jellyfish) as Kōichirō "Kō" Hasegawa

Daiki Shigeoka (BAD BOYS J) as Katsutoshi Ōtomo

Mone Kamishiraishi (live-action Chihayafuru) as Kana Matsunaga

Additional cast members include The Dresscodes band member Ryōhei Shima, Yōichirō Saitō, Goichi Mine, Ayumu Itō, Masami Horiuchi, Miwako Ichikawa, and Mickey Curtis.

The film will open in Japan on November 5. Yūki Yamato is directing the film.

Asakura started the series in Kodansha's Bessatsu Friend magazine in 2004, and ended it in 2013. Kodansha published the 17th and final volume in 2014. The manga inspired a spinoff manga titled Oboreru Knife: Yūgyo no Shizuku Iwa no Yume in 2012.

Asakura's Piece of Cake manga also inspired a live-action film. Del Rey published part of Asakawa's A Perfect Day for Love Letters manga series in English in 2005, and that manga inspired a live-action television adaptation in 2014.


discuss this in the forum (1 post) |
bookmark/share with: short url

News homepage / archives