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Live-Action 5 Centimeters Per Second Film Unveils Teaser, More Cast, Composer

The official website for the live-action film of Makoto Shinkai's 5 Centimeters Per Second anime film unveiled a teaser trailer, second teaser visual, more cast members, and the composer Ayatake Ezaki (musical contributor on BELLE, Muteking the Dancing Hero) on Friday. The 30-second teaser debuts the first footage to be made public.

The teaser features the melody of Tenmon's song "Omoide wa Tōku ni Hibi" from the original anime — as a cover performed by Ezaki specifically for this teaser. The tagline on the new visual reads, "Takaki-kun. I hope we can view the cherry blossoms again next year."

Haruto Ueda and Noa Shiroyama play the main lead characters Takaki and Akari, respectively, when they were children.

The anime focuses on Takaki Tono, telling the story through three stages of his life and describing his weakening connection and relationship to a girl he once loved. In the first part, set in his middle school years, he tries to make his way to one final meeting with Akari Shinohara, a girl who he befriended in elementary school. With Akari moving away, he realizes this will be his final meeting with her, and he braves the snow and the circumstances to see her. The second part is set during Tono's high school life, when Tono is still thinking about Akari, ignorant to the feelings of a girl named Kanae who has fallen in love with him. The third part is set during Tono's adulthood, where he struggles to hold down a job and a relationship as he continues to find things that remind him about Akari.

SixTONES member Hokuto Matsumura (Suzume's Sōta Munakata) stars in the live-action film.

Spoon is producing the film, and TOHO will distribute. Yoshiyuki Okuyama is directing, and Ayako Suzuki is writing the script.

The film will open in theaters on October 10. The tagline on the earlier teaser visual above reads, "How fast do I have to live so I can see you again?"

The 5 Centimeters Per Second anime opened in Japan in 2007. The film is split into three individual segments. Crunchyroll previously released the anime on DVD in 2011 with the help of Bandai Entertainment. Discotek later released a reissue of that version with new cover art. GKIDS later acquired the license in 2022 and released the film on Blu-ray Disc with Shout! Factory.

Shinkai directed, wrote, and storyboarded the anime film, and was also the sound director, producer, and art director. Tenmon composed the music.

Sources: 5 Centimeters Per Second film's website, Comic Natalie